Fabric Sculpture Series 2 (External Tumours), 2007, deformed circular forms (defaced coins, scratched vinyls, CDs with corrupted data) covered in stretched fabric.
Based on the idea of the uncontrolled division of tumour cells, and abnormal tissue growth. The use of contrast in the photo gives a fantastic illusion to a kind of futuristic scene, making the piece seem like it is in motion with growth. One thing I really like is the use of corrupted items making the skeleton of this piece as it now connects to tumours and mutated cells through many levels.
Wood Works, 2005, wood.
Made from tooth picks and barbecue skewers to give the idea of perfection from the clean, spherical form, though they are not a perfect sphere.
Glass Rope, 2007, glass
Challenging links between material and function. Glass was used as it has the opposite properties to rope, being brittle and fragile.
"In seeking a method of construction that questions this and our perception of material's relationship to it's function, the theory of the innate spiral was formed. By filling a tube of stretch jersey with identical symmetrical objects larger than the non-stretched with of the tube, surplus volume is created with the tube. This surplus volume is expelled at a 45 degree angle from the seem of the tube, thus generating a permanent three dimensional spiral from the objects contained with in the tube. In this case over ten thousand glass marbles were shared between the two structures, uniting individual glass spirals in the construction of Glass Rope" - Mersh
Images and quotes taken from http://wwww.rowanmersh.com
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