The theme of the festival was ‘Respair which translates as ‘the return of hope after despair’.
 
When the axe of lockdown fell, it felt as if we were moving in slow motion until we were hung in a tragedy like Pompeii and life stopped mid-action.
 
With this piece I took the circular shapes of angle grinding discs as the lift off for a conversation about renewal after the last 18 months when life ground to a halt.
 
This sculpture, created as we came out of lockdown and designed to move in the wind feels like a visual representation of our first steps moving forward. ​