spikes, aloes and pods

Now the Little Moreton Hall commission is finished, I thought I'd put some of my 'back catalogue' on. For 'the unsafe garden' installation, I created three other works alongside the 'fans'.



'pod' was based on the banana flowers, which had produced bananas for the first time since the Palm House had reopened.






'aloe' was inspired by the aloe leaf and the way it unfolds with hooked edges interlocking. I created the sculpture to look as if it was balancing on a fine point hovering above the soil.


The 'spikes' were inspired by the palm 'dasylirion acrotrichum' with it's vicious sword-like leaves. They ran in a deep undulating line through the border around the Palm House. The 'spikes' gave the installation it's title.