Untitled 1983

This untitled sculpture comprises three ground-based, free-standing forms placed in a diagonal row, and a fourth form affixed above them on the gallery wall. Each shape evokes a hybrid of the natural and the man-made, as they are abstract and stylised yet curiously organic. The relationship between the four separate forms is determined by their shared colour – an intense blue – and their spatial alignment – a geometrical arrangement that seems to link the forms together. This arrangement encourages the spectator to read the ground-based forms consecutively in terms of height, from the lowest, which is furthest from the wall, to the tallest, which is closest to the wall. The lowest is round, but unevenly so, resembling a coiled ball. The next juxtaposes a spiked base of outward-thrusting cones coloured grey with a rounded, phallic upper part coloured blue. The tallest unites a round base with a conical top; its undulating surface evokes the textures of draped fabric or waves. On the wall, the slightly flattened ball shape of the fourth form resembles a stylized rose bloom.