FLUX

Flux grew from a contradiction I find interesting. Nature is constantly changing, yet feels stable. Everything is moving, growing, decaying but beneath that movement there seems to be an underlying order holding everything together.

I worked in clay because it responds directly to change. It holds pressure, records touch and can be pushed and adjusted again and again. It felt appropriate for something built around instability and shift. Sand ripples, formed and re-formed by water and wind and the markings of the eagle ray as it moves through the seabed – patterns that are not fixed images but traces of movement.

While making this piece I thought a lot about change and how uncomfortable it can be when we try to resist it.

The repeated forms create a sense of structure but the overall movement remains fluid and unpredictable. Much like life, really.

Clay sculpture
1100 x 800 x 70mm

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