Clothesline, 2026
Powder-coated cast-iron and aluminum
450 × 450 × 500 cm

The rotary clothesline occupies an unusual position within the built environment. Neither architecture nor furniture, its purpose is realised through what passes across it: cloth, weather, movement, and time. Rather than existing as an autonomous object, it operates as a structure that supports and gives form to changing relationships.

This work begins with the familiar geometry of the clothesline, but seeks to reveal qualities that often go unnoticed. Beneath its utilitarian function lies a form that recurs across cultures and histories: a central axis from which relationships radiate outward. In this sense, the clothesline shares something with the pavilion, the loom, the wheel, the tent, and the tree. Each establishes a centre around which materials, objects, and activities are gathered.

The introduction of ornament does not abandon the clothesline's original purpose. Instead, it estranges the object from its everyday use, allowing its underlying structure to become visible. What was once a practical backyard fixture begins to oscillate between sculpture, display structure, and place of gathering.

Conceived as a support for textile and embroidered works, the sculpture is activated through cloth, light, movement, and gravity. Like a loom awaiting thread, it finds its fullest expression through what it carries. Meaning emerges through the continual exchange between structure, material, and environment, transforming an ordinary object into a shared site of making.