When meditating with one’s eyes closed, you become aware of the darkness of the body; an embodied space that is paradoxically without boundary or dimension.

are sculptural forms that reconcile the limitless with the bounded, conflating the body’s ability to contain mind with architecture’s ability to enclose the body. They take the 

 (1990–2018) from solid mass to void: the cubic life-size body spaces are enlarged into greater volumes by applying the metric expansion of the universe. This enlargement is usually used to describe the expansion of cosmic measures of time and space, where the scale of space is itself changed. In the 

, this principle is applied to the intimate space of the singular human body. By acknowledging the processes that govern the spatial expansion of the universe, the expansive potential of mind is evoked.

The work is evolved from a concentrated moment of lived time: the body is captured in a scan and transformed into large pixels that become rectilinear cells. Each cell is expanded so that it begins to fuse with those adjacent to it to make a hermetically-sealed case, fabricated from Corten steel sheet.

 contain an inner darkness: still and silent places of becoming. When the sculptures encounter living bodies, they can be used as an instrument to generate movement, feeling, and connection.

Tankers

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 124 × 91 × 124 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Manifold

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 88.2 × 93 × 132.8 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Store

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 199 × 73.3 × 68.3 cm. Installation view, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, 2013. Photograph by Ulrich Ghezzi.

Prize

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 222 × 72 × 57 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Gauge

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 229.5 × 89.8 × 83.4 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Reserve

, 2014, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 2 sculptures; variable dimensions. Photograph by Jürgen Brinkmann.

Expanded Family × 2: Choose

, 2014, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 3 sculptures; variable dimensions. Photograph by Jürgen Brinkmann.


Expanded Family × 3: Reach

, 2014, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 5 sculptures; variable dimensions. Photograph by Jürgen Brinkmann.

Expanded Family × 5: Prop

 2015, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 213.5 × 77 × 70.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

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