The intention has been to create sculptures in cities that interact with people in the course of their daily lives. Monumental, netted sculptural environments are animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography', making the intricate patterns formed by this natural flow of air suddenly visible to the human eye as they are projected as shadow drawings on the ground below. The last decade has been spent developing a method for creating public sculptures that uses a rigid steel-armature system combined with flexible volumetric forms made of knotted high-tech fibre. The inspiration for these flexible membrane sculptures came from the design of life forms, in which a skeleton is draped with a skin to create a three-dimensional form. This was influenced by the study of evolutionary biology at Harvard University, and research into the ways surface area was maximised in a group of one-cell-thick life forms from the Precambrian era. For each project, the site, its geography, its physical, cultural and political history are researched, paying close attention to local materials, and how people have developed ways of working with such materials over the centuries.
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