Metamorphosis, Installation

Repetition Series, Jesmonite, calico & grate polish, 400 x 400 cm, Artist’s Collection

This is part of a series of work about abstract repetition that considers Aristotle’s concept that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, later discussed by Kate Armstrong in her text, Theory of Repetition in Art and Culture. By using repeated forms and processes of deconstruction, the inorganic forms undergo a process of metamorphosis when put together, and gradually evolve into a new organic mussel-like formation.

The Repetition Series reflects my interest in combining repeated abstract shapes and objects to make a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Like natural evolution, repetition can create difference as well as repetition.