At a certain point in the late 1990s, I started thinking about the relationship of mass and space as dynamic, taking hand-forged balls and making constellations that convey something about entropy and aggregation in a direct way. The balls on the floor can roll about anywhere; other balls are fixed in clusters like molecules.

All bodies are attracted to each other, and the relationship between man and dog is one of the oldest of attractions across species. The installation of 

acknowledges that all bodies are bodies in space, whether they are the quarks and muons of the subatomic world, or the planets of a solar system.

Ball Works

, 2000, chrome balls, 33 × 130 × 70 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies At Rest I

, 2000, chrome balls, 36.5 × 100 × 68 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies At Rest III

, 2000, forged ball bearings, 189 × 52 × 28 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Foreign Body I

, 2000, forged ball bearings, 190.4 × 48 × 38 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Foreign Body II

Foreign Body III

, 2000, forged ball bearings, 192 × 48 × 38 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Foreign Body IV

, 2001, forged ball bearings, 192 × 47 × 31 cm. Installation view, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, 2003. Photograph by Ulrich Ghezzi, Salzburg.

Standing Matter I

, 2001, forged ball bearings, 207 × 95 × 58 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space III

, 2001, forged ball bearings, 193 × 67 × 48 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space II

, 2001, forged ball bearings, 192 × 49 × 34 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space I

, 2001, forged ball bearings, 206 × 86 × 72 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space IV

, 2003, forged ball bearings, 177 × 76 × 43 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space VI

, 2008, forged ball bearings, 200 × 95 × 70 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space VII

, 2009, mild steel forged balls, 201 × 84 × 80 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Bodies In Space VIII

, 2007, forged ball bearings, 192 × 50 × 30 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Standing Matter V

, 2008, forged ball bearings, dimensions variable. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Three Foreign Bodies

, 2009, forged ball bearings, 190.5 × 52 × 28 cm. Photograph by Todd White Photography, London.

Standing Matter XXI

, 2009, forged ball bearings, 190 × 53 × 30 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Standing Matter XXIV

, 2008, forged ball bearings, 80 × 100 × 64 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Body Web II

, 2008, forged ball bearings, 202 × 63 × 45 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Body Web I

, 2008, forged ball bearings, 86 × 86 × 60 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co., London.

Ball Works

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