Okay a quick two-parter....

I've come up with a possible new idea for the base of the sculpture, I'm going to look for a table to pull for the installation to set the typewriter on, something fitting the tone of the piece and to ground it in space.

I'm also simplifying the piece for now. I'd like to finish it to the way I described earlier with the wave over head and the pieces dispersing but for now I want to make sure it looks clean and finished for next weekend when we install. I'm going to keep the wave (?) I have and get that stable in the type writer. I'm also going to finish the back of it so that it has options for where it gets placed in the space.

Part Two!

As for the next project... While, I don't know exactly what that will be yet I've been thinking about layers and what's always there in the back of your mind. While that doesn't necessarily have to equate to torment it's at least one possibility.

I searched wire sculpture because the self contained seemingly tangled mess has always been an image that reads torment for me and I came across Antony Gormley. A lot of his collections include a lot of figure work but the work that caught my eye was his collection called Extended Polyhedra Works. On his website (www.antonygormley.com) he describes the collection as "In these dematerialised works the bodies are free, lost in space, weightless, and with no internal determination. They appear as emergent zones: you cannot be sure whether the bubble matrix is produced by the body zone of the zone by the matrix."

What I find so interesting about Gormley's work is that despite what I expect to be chaotic because of the wire it's still very structured. As seen in Touch (2007).