We wanted any collaboration to emerge naturally through a growing understanding of each’s work and mutual trust. Over the next year we visited each other, saw our respective performances and exhibitions and discussed potential ideas for joint work. These quickly focused on the concept of a constraining web of elastic which I then installed in my garage on 6 August 2012, using temporary walls for this purpose.
This enabled me to try out different movement to see how the elastic behaved, and different clothes. These trials were recorded to discuss with Darren. There clearly isn’t enough elastic. I need to keep trying and develop a greater range of movement. I’m cautious at first as if I tangle the elastic too much I will have to cut it to release myself.
