It is an existing mathematical model that I found on my computer while in Japan; with a twist, obviously. If you work on Mac it’s in Apple’s Grapher programme in the examples menu. It’s a toroid-knot, which is to say that it is a helix that winds round in a circle 3 times without ending and without crossing it’s own path. Working above my head for several days did my back in and staring at the increasing chaos of the programming nearly blew my fuse box. It was called toroid-knot until a kid at a school I was doing a workshop at said it looked just like a galaxy to him. For me this is a perfect example of a virtual representation that I could bring to life through the analogue. I can revisit the computer-generated model to remember the difference between the two, and I encourage you to do the same. In as much as these works seek to reveal the machinery (as per post-modernism) through, both it’s visibility and it’s simplicity; I can’t see any further distillation. Rather romantically the pebbles in this work came from a little creek that emerges from a large subterranean cave in rural Yamaguchi in Japan.