Life Sculpture -- Emma Jackson. Resin over vinyl. About 12'x3'x3'.   Provenance

....Betty Collings, working on the outer edge of an intuited mathematics, uses abstract problems of topology to construct irregular spiralling solids that look like segments of a frozen whirlpool. Massive, yet full of airy grace, they combine the mathematician's insight with an artist's sensibility to achieve an extraordinary focus for both the mind and the eye.

The preparation and process of this work is slightly different from that of the other artists. The effort of manufacture, however strenuous, is easily outweighed by the evidence of thought, the extensive calculation that underlies the structure of each form. Collings' drawings are not part of this initial effort but are instead mappings of what has happened in the course of building the sculpture. They function both as documentation lingering after the installation is dismantled, and as an end product or logical consequence of the sculpture itself.