00:00 The piece is called Manifold and it's essentially a kind of mathematical work.
00:08 It's a picture of a chord falling into silence.
00:11 It's based on a five to four ratio and that's stamped on the base, on the stem.
00:16 But essentially it's a kind of an algorithm which shows this descent towards silence.
00:22 So it's essentially a visualization of a musical chord.
00:25 And it was conceived about ten years ago now for this entrance.
00:31 It was conceived for the Crossrail programme because I won a competition back in 2012.
00:39 And each station had a competition all along the Crossrail line.
00:44 So you'll see that across the Crossrail line there's one commission by one artist and I
00:48 was lucky enough to win this station.
00:51 How did you conceive the idea?
00:52 What was the inspiration behind the sculpture?
00:54 I knew that it would be quite a narrow street so I had to have a kind of very small footprint
00:59 and then grow bigger because I knew it would be a very busy thoroughfare.
01:02 So something large and sort of blocking isn't really appropriate for an entrance of a station.
01:07 You need to really create those flows.
01:09 It starts off very thin at the top like a river.
01:11 It's very thin and fast and as it falls and decays and loses energy and entropy it kind
01:17 of gets fatter and slower like a river.
01:19 And then which obviously helps with the structure.
01:21 So the stem is very strong and supports the sort of tornado like spline as it emerges.
01:27 You can see it very, very kind of stands out against that white building behind.
01:32 The piece is made of bronze, made of hundreds of cast pieces of bronze that were assembled
01:38 in Spain and it was then shipped here before Brexit and it's been in storage for a few
01:42 years waiting for the Wilkinson Air Building to be finished.
01:46 How are you feeling seeing your sculpture stand outside this station now?
01:50 Well, really pleased because it's been a very long process.
01:53 It's been particularly long.
01:55 It's over 10 years.
01:56 So it's been a lot of sort of, we've had to be very patient.
02:01 But it was meant to go in in 2016 or something so it's very late.
02:07 But it's great that it's in and I'm really excited.
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