Poetry has informed my work over the years, and recently the text itself has emerged as a major structural element of my sculptural forms. An example of this is evident in the sculpture Blake Illuminated, that is presently part of the exhibition organized by Sculpture at Goodwood, thinking big: concepts for 21^st century british sculpture at the Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy. This takes the form of an open book, which is based on the first two poems of William Blake’s book Song’s of Experience: The Introduction and The Earth. In this case, words of the texts are represented by a slot which is cut out of the stainless steel pages thus enabling light to pass through it. Therefore when sunlight passes over this sculpture an illuminated image of wordless text is projected on the ground. This draws Blake’s text the Earth to the ground as an illuminated image this also alludes to Blake’s prints, which could be described as illuminated manuscripts

Another example of my approach to integrate poetic text within the sculptural form was seen in my installation Mallarmé 2000,which was part of my last one-person exhibition in New York Trans… the evoid at the Pardo Gallery. This installation consisted of six glass panels in which I transformed six double folio pages of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem A Throw of Dice into floating images of blocked out text that cast multiple shadows onto the gallery walls. This was juxtaposed by a series of steel plates in the form of expanded shadows that appeared to float around the room as if the text was fragmenting into cyberspace. An illuminated marble book engraved with the title Le Tombeau de Stéphane Mallarmé also accompanied this exhibition. This exhibition received very positive critical attention and was reviewed by Robert C. Morgan in the magazine Sculpture and selected by art critic Arthur Danto in Artforum as one of the ten best exhibitions in 2000.