Cuckoo, 2024, 420 x 350 x280cm, repurposed lead glass vessels, mild steel, steel wire rope, brass, poly lactic acid, tissue, lipstick.
Walk around and close ups of Cuckoo installation filmed and edited by Pedro Küster
Cuckoo draws on my memory of a domestic staircase, suggesting both the material and formal language of modernist architecture. At first glance, the glass elements, within the work, reflect this; closer inspection reveals that these are actually casts of the ‘noses’ of a worn Georgian staircase. This process of transformation reveals layers of histories, troubling the otherwise clean lines and formal spatial segmentation.
Each “nose” is cast from a different lead crystal vessel, the differences of which are subtlety present through differing tones in colour and transparency. As the viewer moves around the sculpture the traces of past footsteps move in and out of focus; at times the glass feels more like an erasure of space as it merges into the surrounding environment.
