Artists Statement
This piece evolved out of a project that encouraged young people to use simple materials (corks and cardboard) to make a structure. I enjoyed the project so much that I decided to have a go myself. This was also an opportunity to try to carve and to explore a fantasy of a gothic/baroque type. The emphasis of the piece is on the pleasure of making, it plays with ideas of form achieved through the arrangement of similar units, yet each unit is an individual piece, resulting in a miniature monument.