Chew

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The idea to make the teething Chew came at a time when the nights were ripped by the sound of our baby crying; so it seemed like a relevant subject for an object.

It may have been about memory; teething and the paraphernalia of early childhood are things that gets forgotten along with father Christmas and the tooth fairy.
It is always interesting to speculate on what these objects were made for originally and to realise what they have become. A bit like children.

The ring serves as a memento of distant days and breakthroughs. It is an image of completion, made up of sixteen circular units. The original object becomes forgotten as it is replaced by the symbolism of the ring as a form.

Encouraged by the commissioner, Susi Gwyn and having seen crop circles in the area I pressed out the dished forms on the fly-press and welded the pieces into a whole. It was zinc sprayed and hangs from the Holme oak in her vicarage garden.