When I entered the window room this morning I had to search for Simon’s work at first. For a moment I thought I was in the wrong room, but when I discovered various locations I felt I was flying over a Lilliputian cityscape.

To appreciate the work, I knelt down so that my viewpoint was at the same level as the sculptures, and it was at this moment that I felt every sculpture scaled up to a massive size - it was my turn to be a Lilliputian!

The most effective aspect of these pieces were the dynamic shadows created by deep folds and grooves in every one of them. The sensation took me back to when I used to read Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. I found it amazing how much space could be created in such a small area only by positioning the sculptures at a proportionate distance from each other. Once I was in that world, not only the sculptures, but the arrangement, too, began to play a light and almost mischievous music in my ears.

If you don’t fight it, you’ll find you can travel from a minute world of an electron microscope to a cosmic space in no time at all

Abbas