In the Balance

In the Balance sculpture

I have just completed and delivered a new permanent sculpture to a gallery in Queenstown. It follows the theme referring to cyclical systems. Titled In the Balance three corten steel rings sit in space one above the other at different angles. They appear to be unsupported but they are joined to each other at a single point giving the impression that they are frozen in time like a multi exposure photograph of a single spinning coin.

The improbability of its form is intended to unsettle and disturb, raising the question: How can this be?

The idea is based upon nature’s fundamental operating principle of interdependent systems in dynamic balance, where breaking the relationships between the systems collapses the whole. The work is in three sizes, from 2 metres to half a metre in height.