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Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show, Dundee, Scotland, 2016Porcelain ceramic, parian ceramic, steel, twine, pendulum mechanism
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Two swings, cast in porcelain, are set in motion by a pendulum mechanism, they move alongside one another, repeatedly coming together at the centre before separating again. The swings are worn through the middle, as if marked by repeated use over time, yet their fragile porcelain bodies could no longer hold a person, the movement continues without weight or contact.
The rhythm of their movement recalls a clock marking time through repetition, they briefly align before moving apart again, caught in a cycle of approach and departure. Emerging from an engagement with the death of my brother, childhood and grief, the work sits somewhere between intimacy and distance, connection and interruption, and the possibility of a return that never quite happens.
