artwork

I got the chance through work to get involved in seeing an artist design a sculpture and then form it. Added to this I was asked to report on it using my photography. It was difficult because I found myself showing the piece being constructed and the people involved. The danger was that it would be the photographic equivalent of those school trips you used to go on and the essays you had to write about them. Those essays where you would say 'then I saw the giraffe and then we went to see the monkeys...'

Also I had also promised the people involved, the actual artists that I would take plenty of pictures of them for their artistic CV.  I really would have liked to take all artistic abstract photos, I couldn't. Plus the light coming through the four storey front window meant it difficult to get a good photo.

The first photo shows the artists prep work in both physical and sketch form. The remainder shows photos taken throughout the day as the work took shape. The work itself was commissioned by the organ donation charity and is entitled life lines. The spiraling silver wire is the interpretation of the the way all our lives cross each other at some point in time. It is the hope that it brings of organ donation in to peoples minds.