Of Air is me, Lucy Corr. I create kinetic sculptures exploring natural and industrial patterns, the uncanny and memory. Made from sustainable and recycled wood, metal and found materials - vintage tools, discontinued magazines, postcards, books - my pieces combine the compression and resourcefulness of collage and poetry in an original form. 

Everything I collect has metaphorical potential: discarded washers that litter London streets, leaves, 1970s Railway Magazines.  I use a bricolage of fragmented words, images, and lost iconography to create new meanings. My Strange Receiver stabiles are collaged from atlases, walking guides and postcards using their text and images as symbols of forgotten places and moments, creating cut-up poems which play on the intent of language. My meditative ‘Broken Blossom’ series positions littered bottle caps or street-sweeper blades as fallen blossom, recycled into stabiles which celebrate the former function and beauty of these objects. 

I think my resourcefulness comes from my  ‘make-do-and-mend’ upbringing: You do what you can with what you’ve got. I’m influenced by Calder, Gego, and artists such as Lonnie Holley and William Burroughs, who work at the intersection of writing and visual art. I’m also inspired by writers like Emily Dickinson, whose poetry I teach in my job as an FE English teacher. Dickinson’s singular form - her use of dashes to connect and fragment meanings and her concrete images which communicate abstract ideas - have influenced the experimental form of my mobiles and stabiles. Currently,  I’m working on extending my current series, making larger mobiles and creating a new series of wall-mounted Poems.