Springboard Tower

While exploring possible mediums for an unrelated sculptural commission in a friends boat scrap yard, I stumbled upon a sawn off keel for an 18 foot ‘trailer’ sailer. The shape I considered immediately as having potential to serve as a pivot point for new work involving mixed mediums. The process of creative practice, Art, serves as a means to both express myself and communicate with others. This dialogue is encapsulated in mediums which best suit each topic, with emergent themes often a surprise and not a predetermined outcome. Sculpture enables me to orient that expression in ways which defy utilitarian premise, open critical discourse around concepts and bring about engagement with an audience much like an actor performs as a dance, a spectacle made solid, a springboard tower.