The Sally Barker Wing at Guggenheim , Bilbao (detail) [2004]
glue, clay, paint, plastic, card
approx 40 x 30 x 20 cm

This structure is the first made in this way starting off drawing with glue, like “Hi-jack Tate Modern,” then turning it into an architectural form. Eliptical shapes (the cross sections) are drawn with the glue gun and held together with lines of glue, acting as the cross hatching in a drawing. The form is then ‘glazed’ with tiny pieces of plastic acting as the glass panes. The pieces of balsa wood are versions of wood panelling. The weird blobby column brings in a form I have been playing with for a while — re-cycling the blobs that ooze out of the end of the glue gun when it waits to be used: when hard they are glued together to form a column. I have plans to do a forest of these incredible structures which, in real life would be up to up to 20 metres high, cast in semi-translucent white resin, lit from within.