Nest

‘Nest’ (the mosaic not the earlier roundabout sculpture) remains one of my favourite works. It was modelled on a small, very finely woven nest found in our garden in Vaughan, complete with a few delicate strands of bright blue baling twine. I sought to render the mosaic not unlike a slightly smudgy drawing of this nest, also imposing on myself the technical challenge of resolving a chaotic series of contour lines with eventual encircling rows of andamenti. At the point where these directionally chaotic contour lines were resolved, something a resembling a ‘torn’ edge emerged, implying ‘Nest’ as a recorded fragment of a larger narrative.