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Tell me what you are. Will you hold me in your arms?
2021
Dimensions Variable 
Stripped trampoline, cast latex, aluminium oyster, eyelets, tempered mild steel spiked hooks
Mild steel hammered spikes, pulverised oyster shells, mortar, chain, shackle, gravity, tension
Stripped trampoline, cast latex, springs, mild steel hammered spike, eyelets, stailness steel fixings, pressure, tension, gravity

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A boundless body cannot be contained to mere surfaces of skin and hairs
The mind cannot be compartmentalised
We are of ourselves and of others -
Of spaces
Of places
Of people
Of dreams.


Energetic forces between those static and those moving - rub shoulders, intwine.
Whole heartedly collapsing into one another
A process of imbrication
One is not parasite in leu of another hosting
They are met as equals
One is made both powerless and powerful through exposure
Utility not marking a value
A new function is imposed
It may appear violent
Will you hurt me?


Time is halted - slowed down
Moments of perpetration and yield straddle perilous fence lines
Threatening collapse, threatening puncture - a tender caress
Look a little closer - are they on the brink of embrace?
Not one exists without the other sustained
A withstanding rivalry
Tension to be met with surrender, like a hot knife through butter ​