Casting seems the most appropriate physical manifestation for this inquiry because it fills and pushes to the limits of its formwork. What happens then, when the formwork is elasticised (i.e. the enclosure forces exceed the body forces)? How does the concrete perform when contained in total buoyancy (i.e. the body forces are equal to the environmental forces)? When the formwork is elasticised, what happens when the pressure is broken (i.e. the body forces overcome the containment forces)?
Furthermore, the question of context is always relevant for a reading of a disciplinary environment, and as such I have tried to understand this importance, through its representation (above). Through 'museumifying' the objects as artifacts, isolated from their histories and contexts, my vehicles of enclosure can take on a new autonomous meaning. They become paired and enclosed within each other to create a new language of the division of space. This objectification, fetishises the instrument of discipline, removing it from time and context to reveal it as no more than a physical relationship of parts.
