I’m constantly exploring the ways in which mobiles enable a single shape to represent different things depending on viewpoint or distance. Sometimes, images appear and disappear as the air takes the piece.
Every stage of making the mobile involves exploration, decisions and revisions. The colours produced by various timbers, the shapes it is possible to make and the shapes they suggest in turn, the stringing of the pieces and the movement in the final piece all require deliberation and experiment.
Even when making a mobile closely allied to a previous one, I will find myself modifying and developing it. Sometimes this means discarding and burning early experiments. Probably the necessity of giving up on a piece when it isn’t suitable or good enough is one of the most important things I’ve learned over the years.