FIRE RIDER

This is the first of a series of models and small pieces which I have done over the last

month and which I will be posting on a daily basis throughout January 2010.

Some are sketches for public arts projects, such as this "Fire Rider" which I

would like to actuate on a scale in which it might be walked through. Others

are one-offs; I did a number of them. It felt, towards winter solstice,

as if I was into the manufactory of sylphs and salamanders out of Faust Prt 2

or the Rape of the Lock, so many odd shapes hung in my kitchen . This is where

I tend to work on cold days when my main studio room gets drafty. One night

I worked late, later than I normally permit myself, and as the kettle boiled

and my old dog was underfoot and the radio was playing the Snowflake

chorus from the Nutcracker, I felt assisted by the djinn.