Waterworks 1993

Here is Alice Aycock’s sculpture, Waterworks. It’s a pretty grand and playful gesture in steel. You can see Aycock’s trying to build a dream. It's like a water slide, meets a wheel, meets some kind of strange machine. You can almost hear the gears turning, the water rushing, and the echoes of an industrial past. I imagine Aycock as being an inventor. Waterworks feels like she is actively questioning, "How can things work?". It's the question every artist asks themselves at some point, right? You keep on trying things out, figuring it out as you go. That openness and wonder, that experimentation and willingness to try things out? To risk failure? That's what connects us as artists. I can see her curiosity and playfulness, and that reminds me of the best parts of making art. It is an ongoing conversation between her and me. And now you.