Weeks have past since I last wrote anything on my blog. I
have not been idle however and several new works have emerged towards my show
in London in June. This piece here has
been re-worked and a base made for it. The Kilkenny base did nothing for this
sculpture and I settled on this rough edged Tunisian black marble instead. The
sculpture itself is all smooth roughly spherical forms. The external sphere. The
internal sphere, and the spherical hole piercing the sculpture. The rough
surface of the base contrasts nicely with this excess of spheres. Settling the
sculpture down onto this uneven surface was quite a job. The bottom of the
sculpture is painted in wet yellow paint, lowered into position, lifted off and
the base ground away where the paint shows. The process is then repeated and
repeated until the sculpture looks like a broody hen settled in her nest.
