I have made quite a number of sculptures in layers – where the layers are evenly spaced – and for some time I had been wondering how it would be if the spacing between the layers was irregular, and if there were shapes cut out of each slice.

This would require a different way to actually make the spaces. Up to now I have used nuts or engineered spacers – all the same width, but irregular spaces required irregular spacing devices. This felt like an opportunity, so I worked with my friend Archie Kennedy – of AK Design who is a genius with 3d modelling and visualisation.

I had made the model of this female form in plastiline which Archie 3d scanned, and we then cut into layers – using aspects of the features that we wanted to accentuate rather than standard width layers. The result was that no space between layers was the same.

In addition, we cut holes in each of the layers, so it was possible to see through some of them. We figured it was also possible to use some of these holes to join layers together, so we refined the model, and engineered it s that we could print a block that would fit into the holes, and act as a way to join the layers together.

This is the result.

In the context of my exploration into Constancy & Change, I am happy with this sculpture. At each 45 degree angle it looks completely changed – but it is also constant.