The root hair that constantly searches the interstices between sand and rock and loam is about the most tender thing you can find; it allows the system to gather its energy from its environment. I love a root as a metaphor, but also what it is as a system.

Let's think of the space of the body as an unknown ground: we are going to start a three-dimensional exploration, a tendril-like rooting system that feels its way through this bodily darkness and touches the bounding condition, maybe sometimes even breaking through it. That sense of exposing the unknowable to the light is important to me.

 have single roots that explore the limbs and torso as singular pathways. They are hooks as much as they are tendrils. I am hoping that in a contemplative state of mind you can get pleasure just feeling your way around them.

Rooters

, 2017, cast iron, 97.5 × 71 × 15 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Receive (1/2 Scale Rooter) IV

, 2017, cast iron, 120.2 × 24.6 × 17.6 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Lift (1/2 Scale Rooter) V

, 2017, cast iron, 193 × 53 × 29 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Stand

, 2017, cast iron, 185.5 × 49 × 37 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Swoon

, 2017, cast iron, 166 × 47.5 × 41 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

, 2017, cast iron, 189.2 × 51.7 × 36.4 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Signal

, 2017, cast iron, 114.1 × 60.5 × 47.9 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Chute

, 2017, cast iron, 67 × 142.5 × 113.6 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Fall

, 2018, cast iron, 180.9 × 48.9 × 33.6 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Boost

, 2018, cast iron, 152.5 × 92.5 × 79 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Climb

, 2018, cast iron, 131.6 × 192.7 × 65 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Stream

, 2019, cast iron, 41 × 61 × 236.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

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