Everything here started as a thread.
Swaledale Gates: timber looms hand-woven with wool in the colours of the dale, made with young people from in and around Swaledale. It is about the effort it takes to make a community, and the effort it takes to keep one.
72 Rooms: the old Japanese calendar divides the year into seventy-two seasons — spring winds thaw the ice, the first peach blossoms, damp earth humid heat. The work answers each one.
Speak: brass petals scattered over the footprint of a room and suspended in mid-flight — prayers said, and prayers left unuttered. Hallel: a sukkah for the Downtown Synagogue of Detroit, three hundred cedar tiles hung from a blue canopy, inscribed by local residents and left to chime in the wind.
Bridge: a steel truss installed in a wood, which the public was invited to add to over a week. It grew and stopped being a bridge. Dense Bridge: the load spread along the whole length, so the section could be almost nothing. Every span asks whether we build in negotiation with the landscape, or against it.
Northern Lights Observatory: a disused coal mine in Svalbard, its shimmering coalface set against the aurora. Camera Obscura: converging lenses on blinds, drawing the sky down into a room.
Abre Etteh, London.