The framework for my domed dwelling is now complete and left the BBK werkstat in Berlin on Friday 16th April.
It will arrive in London on 23rd April.
I'll return to London at the beginning of May to collect all the materials which will make up the outside of the structure and drive these and contents of the crate down to Devon.
Work in progress at BBK's Sculpture Workshop in Berlin.
The work shown at Broomhill will be a response to Sally Underwood’s increasingly nomadic life.
This restlessness has inspired a body of work concerned with how we define and shelter, the meaning of ‘home’ in a physical and temporal sense and in archetypal nomadic dwelling structures. Underlying this new work though is her continued interest in impermanence, entropy and the pleasures that can derived from destruction.
The circular, domed structure that she is building for Broomhill will be intentionally unstable and will change over time, hopefully being invaded by nature, as the built-structure recedes and the natural structure from nature and plant growth comes to the fore.
The qualities of home are reflected in the circle (O), an ancient symbol for safety, equality, inclusiveness, and eternity. The construction of the wooden frame for the dome allows for some indulgence in geometry and joy in the convoluted process of making it compared with the ease that the structures that is based were constructed by their inventors.
