Train of thought

"The puffadder cannot fly but it still catches the hornbill" by Gillian Lowndes was shown in "Constructed Clay" in 2003. Lowndes spent time in Nigeria in the 1970s, which clearly influenced her work. The "ceramic collages" incorporate other materials, such as wire and fibreglass. She broke the fundamental rule that a ceramic artefact must be fired in one piece. Many of her works are in the Anthony Shaw Collection.

Currently I'm questioning the construction of art works in terms of "support" and "traces/threads". The support is often invisible - in the way the paper supports the drawing, subtly influencing it through the nature of its unnoticed qualities. The trace is the "drawn" line and "threads" are the inter-weaving of those lines to make a surface.

Perhaps what I'm looking at is "empty space" - and how that space isn't really empty. Somehow all of this swirls round in my brain, with no articulable resolution, as I look at this piece - which is presented in 2D. Would the same questions arise if seeing it in 3D?