Schema for a New Grid System (Liverpool) was the second in a series of three graph-paper based works which I began towards the end of 2007 and worked on for the next two years.
Like the first (see Schema for a New Grid System), it was about repeated, embedded patterns (the printed grids on each page of the graph pad) used to create an overarching pattern over hand-cut sculptural elements. I cut a simpler and smaller grid of cylinders into an A3 graph pad, which this time became part of an installation at an exhibition in Liverpool in 2008.
In the gallery, the work was placed on a small white desk, into which a rectangular hole was cut, very slightly larger than the grid in the pad. Thus, when a viewer sat down to examine the graph pad, they were able to see their own legs through it and through the desk. The work literally opened a window into a reality - not an alternative one - but, unexpectedly, this one.
The work has since been framed in order to preserve an otherwise fragile object.
