June 2025
Week 1
Capturing Place - Reflections from the Studio
I arrived home from university last night mentally exhausted. In hindsight, it’s been an incredibly full week - balancing the exploration of ribbon pattern ideas, considering potential colour solutions inspired by the May verges outside the house, completing the construction of my second exploratory sculpture based on the Sawbridge contour, and beginning a third piece in the same theme, this time taking a much more organic form. All of this, alongside trying to process my thoughts and intentions for this potential body of work.
Through these exploratory sculptures - each rooted in a single place - I’m trying to capture the notion of place: the memories it holds, the connections we have to moments in time, and our emotional responses to it. It’s about nostalgia, quiet reflection, and the subtle resonance of experience - attempting to hold a moment still, in form and surface.
At this stage, I’m not entirely sure where the work is heading. Perhaps I’ll know I’m onto something when I feel that unmistakable tingle of excitement while building and making!
