The Nine

Newsprint paper, Bulbond Super PVA glue, steel. 
Various dimensions. The cymbal at the equator of each sculpture is held balancing at the same height as my shoulders. (160cm) 
2019 - 2021

In the winter of 2018 I moved to Egypt to make the sculptures that became The Nine. For a year I lived in Tunis, a village in Fayoum. Then I found my flat in the Cairo neighbourhood of Faggala. I work in the room that leads onto the balcony. 

The sculptures began as flat stiff paper cymbals. When they softened under the first layer of gluey paper they became strangely saggy elliptical equators. Each time I reached around one, my arms enclosed a particular volume of air. The sculptures condensed to fill those volumes. The Nine were completed in the winter of 2021.

With thanks to Roshanak Zangeneh for her videos and photographs.