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'The waiting room is by its very nature, a limbo place where time and reality can feel suspended. On being asked to create an artwork for such a room, the blank ceiling seemed an opportune place for it to be located. The contemporary ceiling is usually a neglected empty space, but further back in history, it was a popular location for art. In the lofty rooms of stately homes, eyes are led upwards to enjoy the paintings or carvings that adorn them. The artists who created them would often employ the technique of trompe l'oeil, to trick the eye, giving an illusion of three-dimensionality to what were in fact painted flat illusions or carved low relief.

When looking up at the ceiling, imagine you are looking down on a long polished tabletop with silver objects arranged along its length. The objects appear to have a mirrored reflection of themselves, perhaps as a result of the light flooding in from the windows. On closer inspection, you see that the reflections are not illusions, but are objects that have been robbed of their third dimension by being flattened, creating cartoon versions of their former selves.

By transforming and re-contextualising familiar objects I'm trying to create a new space for contemplation within the most visited place. Exploring the territory of the limbo, the space between light and shadow, life and death, discipline and chaos.'