Before lockdown in the UK, myself and Hugo Harris wanted to combine our artistic practices in a series of collaborative pieces, combining Hugo's sculptural work, which is primarily concerned with the human body and my own, which I use to explore concepts of cultural identity through sculptural design.  

Our intention was to have a conversation through sculpture, handing an item back and forth from one another, adding and manipulating the object with each 'reply' to create a series of sculptural forms. 

Not living together meant exchanging these works during lockdown was impossible. We decided instead to digitalise our work and have the conversation via blender, sending the files to one another. 

The forms that we have designed during lockdown are built up from a number of photo scans of physical sculptures that we have made individually. The programmes we have been using have allowed us to manipulate the size, texture and colour of these once small physical objects and combine them with digitalised line drawings which I would have originally used in my own work to create pieces of laser-cut furniture.  The result of these conversations is a series of architectural and sculptural forms that we wish one day to realise physically.

The most recent architectural designs have been influenced by a series of classical style buildings from places we have spent time together; Edinburgh, Florence and West London. Using our photo scans as the building blocks Hugo has created structures inspired by such buildings, I then continue the design process, incorporating features more characteristic of Chinese Imperial buildings along with colour. The finished structures blend elements of  Western and Eastern architectural designs, enabling us to have a sculptural-digital dialogue through which we have been able to communicate our own artistic styles and interests to one another.



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