Worn like a helmet, the form limits vision and renders the wearer physically oversized, struggling to pass through doors, awkward in space, and hyper-visible.

The material and form harks back to weird passion projects of my juvenilia – sculpting grotesque head forms or landscapes. A nod to the comic and uncanny Frank Sidebottom.

I was reading Jack Halberstam’s The Queer art of Failure a year after the first iteration of this work – and decided it needed to be reactivated – interestingly embarrassing and fragile.

The piece in progress on a balloon former – classic primary school techniques. Flour, salt, and paper. The sense of coherence when spherical and taut.