80 - Along The Edge

I have done some work today to update the website. I created a Projects section and began to populate that with the main groups of work I've done. Starting with the balloon installations work (mainly because I found the photos).

It's interesting how much there is before, after and around the work, in relation to the elements, or finished pieces I chose to present.

It began just after I left art college in 1995. A guy named Alex Hidalgo curated a show at the Camley Street Natural Park in Camden and he invited me to participate. It's a narrow strip of land alongside the canal near Kings Cross railway in London. The show was called 'Along the Edge' and we were invited to respond to the space of the wild garden.

I had the idea to create a fairy tale ladder that seemed to climb forever out of the confines of the City. Made from narrow strips of silvery sticky tape, it was 35 meters long and held aloft by a helium filled balloons.

I dug this out just now - a fragment of the ladder and there was poem that went with it.

Once I discovered balloons, I jumped right into sculpting with them. The studio was bulging with them and I got into this wonderful experimental phase of working.

I will come back to this and share more about it. Getting late now.