The Gossamer Prison

Zaostrog Monastery, Croatia, July 2004.

Persian text cut out of a lace curtain.

"Free thyself
from the fetters of this world,
and loose thy soul from
the prison of self"

Persian Hidden Word, #40

< Photo: Julie Fowler-Smith, Australia.

< Photo: Julie Fowler-Smith, Australia.

< Leiden Museum of Weaving, 2008

Outdoor works Nga Hau e Wha (The Four Winds/Breaths), sculpture scheduled for Sept. 2004. The Gossamer Prison, curtain and thread, 2004. Generating Plant, custom-made birdhouse form, 2004. The Wedding, intervention/installation during the 9 Dragonheads festival, April 2004. Inland Soul at Sea, 19 hanging forms, 2003. Colonising Oxford, performances and installations on the streets over a period of two weeks, 2002. Fruits of the Earth, spiral cut out of a dried grass area inserted with plastic flowers, 2003. With fire we test the gold and with gold we test our servants, 2003, wooden sculpture made during a Sculpture Symposium in a park in a village in Northern Romania. Parking Spaces for Important Visitors, 2001, paintings on shaped canvas laid over a floor/ground. Inspiration, 2001, paintings on shaped canvas laid over a floor/ground. Just pour les oiseaux (Strictly for the birds), 2001, installations and performances during a walk through a forest setting led by a guide. Onder vier ogen (Between you and me) , 2001, mask-forms hung on trees, with texts and images in the orifices. Dans le jardin des beaux arts, 19 snail forms, 2000 (in various locations). The Living Creature, 1999, performances by seven artists and one child in a rose garden in a public park in London. Change is a Law of Nature, 1996, performances on the streets, in Hull and London, U.K. (repeated in other locations in 2001, 2002, and 2004). Memorials, 1996-2001, ceramic tiles laid into the earth. Te Koru Iwa, 1996, fire drawing at the Oerol Arts Festival, The Netherlands. Letters van de Levende, 1996, 19 batiked flags along the ridge of sand dunes during the Oerol Arts Festival.