Over the last three years I have been developing the Garden Furniture project, an ongoing series of sculptures that deteriorate and die. The project came about through an interest in making sculpture that uses both permanent and ephemeral materials, altering a static piece of furniture by covering it in living, growing grass, the work therefore changes over time, altering itself, a process that is beyond my control. Via these transformations that the work becomes a vehicle to play with the ambivalence of our associations and how we perceive such things, whilst exposing the inherent beauty that lies within the objects used. By being precariously ready to break or die and therefore change further, these sculptures have no definite end point, continuing to evolve after they have been realised, a common factor occurring within much of my work.
