I’m getting angles to angle up now
which is quite nice
Whether I want that or not is another matter
It’s all about balance, really
It’s all about the feelings you get
which are really quite difficult to describe
to do with the eye and the feeling you get from space
colour, light, everything
We put it on a…
somewhere where I can glance at it quickly
off the side as it were
I quite like doing that
because then your brain isn’t concentrating
you just, sort of… all you’re doing is looking
and that tells you more than if you think about it
I think it’s getting more interesting from the back now
I call this a front
Sometimes I end up, the front being the back, but never mind
Always like to have a front
Yeah, that seems to be a bit lost, this piece
I need to lock it in somehow, so it feels...
it can’t move anywhere
Put this thing here
and we’ll try and put it
something has it, locks it in, like that
Basically, I think I can start with making some of these elements here
I’m going to try and make it ten times bigger
so my unit is going to be times ten of the model
I’m hoping it’s going to sink in
The bottom like that
Like that. That’s it
Yes, all my calculations have gone to pieces
I find this bit important, somehow
when it sticks out here
It’s structurally quite a tricky sculpture to make, this one
because it has…everything has to support everything else
and yet not appear to support it
All right
Assistant: Now, if you hold it I’ll go round the other side
Right on the other side, if you go over the other side
down, and like that. Yes, that’s it
Assistant: Yes, that’s it
That’s it, that’s gone in, now
I think I may have to have another hole
and the thing is, I have to decide where to have it
Yeah, pretty central
Hold on, let me just lift the whole thing up here
If you can…
is it through?
Assistant: Yeah
Oh, that’s great
I’m really pleased with it
It’s got a real dynamism, it’s why I call it Recoil
It, kind of, has things going one way and things going the other way
push and pull
the, kind of, release from gravity, as it were
and how to cope with gravity, and play with it
and go with it, and go against it, and so on
So it’s all about that