Inspired by Keffords ethic I revisited my neglected collection of artefacts found and acquired and “clumped and clustered” as he put it. During his presentation I also played with some copper wire from work and combined it with what I had been carrying around in my pockets for a while – a radiator key, bent floor board nail and wall fixing Ive used for years as a doorkey thing.Then at work in half term making sculpture I took the plunge and started making some mini sculptures using the off cuts of sandstone from a larger piece.

Working without squares and straight-edge!! Hugely liberating! Using a motif Ive used before in a more controlled way – a window in a tower. here a window in a tower in a window. A riff on cliches about finding the form within the block (which i reject as nonsense based on misconceptions). Here playing with the idea of St Valentine and the difficulty of getting to the heart of things etc..