Cardinal (2016 — 6m metal sculpture, London, Central Saint Martins Degree Show)

Cardinal emerged from two years of work in sound, bass and frequency — phenomena that are invisible yet pass physically through the body and through space. The sculpture is not a break from that research but it’s materialisation: I gave a skeleton to a frequency. Despite its six metre height it is barely massive; the steel draws a mostly empty volume, a network of lines organised around a centre, so that the object reads less as a creature than as a *field of forces* radiating from a core.

The central sphere keeps its scale deliberately undecided — star, cell, brain, heart, seed — and the cage around it seems at once to protect, support and imprison it, which is precisely the double nature of an invisible force: it can give structure to a world and, in the same gesture, hold us inside it.

Where Radiation lets an invisible force leave a trace in matter, Cardinal lets one take on a body in space — a visible skeleton for something that is only ever felt, and that then organises the space around it.