At a decisive transformative moment a provisional collection of material such as a pile of tissue paper or a mass of Plasticine can become an object and that object may then take on the status of a sculpture. A traditional status-giving object such as a plinth may itself become a sculpture. But what of the subject, if it is not overtly represented?

The intention of this project is to examine the theory of the de-centred subject. The failure of representation and the symbolic fiction of the object as a substitute for the subject raises a number of questions. If the subject is de-centred and the object is already mediated by representation, how does a sculpture that supposedly representing a human subject relate to reality?

As part of this project, contingent objects are presented in a way that implies the human subject but where the explicit human shape is absent; this means using traces or impressions of actions as evidence of the missing subject. The significance of the subject to the object becomes increasingly evident, as the sculpture is perhaps practice rather than object, and the object is no more than a transitory gathering of the subject's movement.