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Rome wasn't built in a day, wax, charcoal and cardboard, 2018

Experimentation and discovery are fundamental to my practice. 

The starting point for this work was the appearance on my studio wall of a kind of fossil as I wiped the wall with a charcoal-dirty rag. The fossil was the remains of a sculpture I'd made directly on the wall with modelling wax and afterwards scraped off. 

The discarded wax scrapings drew my attention; piles of wax lines, twists and pickings that I had torn and scraped off with my nails before absent-mindedly stock-piling ready for the next experiment. 

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