The text of Poemhas been cut using Macken Discharge Carbon Dioxide lasers; then bound into a book approximately two-thirds of the way through and clear silicone then extruded through the cut text. “Most of my preoccupations are based around studies and experiments with materiality. I try to engineer situations where I can begin to improvise ‘conversations’ with stuff. The work is the result, regardless of scale, of investigations into the inherent physicality of a particular material, process or situation. Silicone seems to behave with both the viscosity of paint and the physical characterisations of gelatinous plastic. Text becomes fluid, as if hand-written, it also becomes literally embodied. In some ways I see text as a carrier of second hand information. Perhaps I’m trying to make it into an object of first hand experience.”

Multiplication, The British Council 2001 text © The Multiple Store