The relationship between everyday objects and human vulnerability is at the heart of early installations like I Can Read Your Thoughts… (2000) and Cascade (2016). Using chairs—symbols of rest and support—these works transform familiar forms into powerful metaphors for fragility and collapse, as they tumble from rooftops and evoke a sense of precariousness.
Later installations employed deckchairs—emblems of leisure and relaxation—as building materials, forming climbable structures. This transformation carries a poignant urgency, recalling the desperate attempts of Grenfell Tower victims, who tied bedsheets together to escape the fire, only to fall short of safety.
The surrounding paper cuts act as screens, trying to have privacy in urban tower blocks is difficult and tensions can build up. The paper is painted both sides ,silver and graphite to give a metallic quality to the surface. The cuts act as vents creating an architectural structure emphasised by the lighting projections and documented in a series of photographic prints. An interaction with moving the lights and screens are also recorded in an abstract video.
