Travellers
2020. Found dolly, spirit level, plywood, a rock from the Atlantic coast of England, a used British Airways inflight blanket, a used Méxicana Airlines inflight blanket, clay and cockles shells. 98cm x 81cm x 41cm.
Two cockle shells sit at opposite ends of a spirit level which balances precariously on a rock collected at low tide from the Atlantic coast. Two airline blankets are separated by a dolly on wheels, one of which has been splattered in clay. Intrigued by the animism and latent voice of the airline blankets, and the absence of travelling ‘up-there’ for over one year owing to the global pandemic, the blankets have been grounded down to earth creating an island that does not belong anywhere and stalled in its motion.
Travellers is a sculpture that makes poetic reference to feelings connected to separation, touch, memory, distance, travelling and something of a void in one’s life.
