Day 33 of the build

A Ticket Cylinder is being built inside The Bethnal Green Library untill 8th December 2007

During the past three years I have been exploring the path of the commuter through drawing and sculpture. Ticket Cylinder evolved out of wanting to make something about impermanence. I deliberately chose a labour intensive project to create a very simple shape, which on reaching it’s proposed height will be pushed, pulled, teased and coaxed until collapsing. Then left in its fallen position for a short time before removed. This piece is constantly in flux and only complete once it is no more.

Day 15 of the build

The Cylinder has being growing in height approximately 1 ¾” a day, each ticket being laid systematically in loops one on top of the other without the aid of glue. A surprising amount of meditative concentration being required, which is completely absorbing, for it is only possible to think about the action, one clumsy move and many days work would be no more.

The Cylinder has been made from the inside out, the outside reflecting the inside, but quite different. The wall of the Cylinder is a map of the making, which I see as a sort of Richter scale; a scale of what can’t be seen, yet housing all the thoughts and experiences encountered along the way. Set in direct opposition to its surroundings, the Bethnal Green Library, the Cylinder is a continual wall of thoughts with no words.

Alongside the work will be a film of the piece’s construction- more than a straightforward documentary- a template for future work.

day 1 with help