Forged Memory

In the forged memory series the clean modern forms carry the residue of an older world. Each sculptural form is influenced by architecture, modern, precise and deliberate, but the tones of black, rust ,and off-white speak of remnants of the city’s past, of iron and smoke and industrialisation.

There is a tension and a reconciliation between the past and the present, as there is in the city. A short walk from the  gleaming towers are buildings from a different age. Buildings that hold the memories of earlier generations and times, and are scarred by the effects of time and weathering..

Their  surfaces are ingrained with the traces of the past, but the forms reach towards what is still to come. This is a tension between remembrance and renewal, shadows of the past within the present, the strength of progress tempered with the enduring legacy of what remains.