Heliothis.zea Sculpture

‘Heliothis.zea’ is the Latin name of the bookworm moth, which is an intentional double misnomer for this piece (the bookworm moth larvae do not feed on paper). It is the last of a series of three graph-paper works. Heliothis.zea is really about the age-old sculptural fascination of positive vs negative space, or rather the way that the surface of a solid object defines both. Like its predecessors, I cut a sequence of 60 sheets of graph paper to form a grid of solid cylinders. The central upper half of the piece is an empty space where half of the grid appears to have been removed. Inside the grid, a snaking, tube-like shape, was again cut out, using simple trigonometric parametric equations. This negative space appears like dark, moth-eaten, or cigarette-burnt damage. The burns are in fact pencil-outlines made in each sheet, prior to cutting, and constitute a continuous tunnel which weaves continuously around the grid, snaking behind it and then rising to the surface again. The central focus of this piece is intended to be the part of the negative-space tunnel which disappears in the upper part where the grid is absent. The classical notion that a sculpture is already contained in the material is here extended by suggesting that the negative space inside a sculpture is already contained in emptiness. The work was framed on completion, using conservation materials, in an identical frame to 'Schema for a New Grid System (Liverpool)'. The two pieces form a pair and have been exhibited as such in The Magnificent Basement and at Peckham Space Open in 2010.

Sculpture:Paper mache on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.8 W x 19.3 H x 1.2 D in

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