Layering several concrete mixes can lead to a rather thick build up which might look in some cases very chunky and heavy. I want, however push my favourite materials. Hence I've been thinking about ways to give my concrete forms a more delicate flair. After all, I want to show fragility, inflammation, decline and unpredictability in my work. To visualise the vulnerability we can find ourselves in through an invisible illness, I would like to take my inclination to distress (tubular forms) in my work a step further now. I'd like to pierce the concrete or clay and, depending on perspective, take away or create empty space that becomes a form in itself. (Hepworth) This hopefully adds another dimension, creates interest or even tension that wants to be balanced out again. Under the light of the inherent concept of tension and release, balance and vertigo... I use fire in order to distress the surface until holes appear. To give the forms an inner structure and stability when attack...
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