This sculpture is a subtle investigation to try and understand the essence of things we perceive as real and things which often remain unseen. I am focusing on how our imagination perceives the physical world, how the thought of an object or entity is different from the sight of it, and how that sight of it creates a memory of the object afterwards. I aim to make work that operates on the edge of perception, somewhere between the physical and metaphysical. A kind of exploration of the peripheral, like a memory or thought which the mind is searching to grasp. By isolating a section of the physical world and presenting that with its alter ego, this work presents us with a number of states or possibilities for that which is or could be, referencing presence and absence, unity or the possibility of a relationship that is, or was, once intimate and that could perhaps be so again.

The sculpture operates in the tradition of minimalist sculpture, where a question has been asked, how much can be subtracted before the meaning evaporates. It is not about beginning or ending, irony or quotation but stands, I hope, in contemplative silence.

Simon Hitchens, May 2010