Oliver Barratt | 40 Ways In

23 January 2010

40 Ways In is part of a body of work entitled Still Moving which takes its title from an excerpt of T.S. Eliot's Four Quarters which reads 'Here and there does not matter. We must be still and still moving.'

The conflict between stillness and movement is something 40 Ways In explores. Its title suggests movement and possibility, forty possibilities to be precise. However, the object itself makes it abundantly clear, that although there may be many methods of entering, there does not appear to be a simple way out.

In addition, Barratt's interest in the inner workings of the human body is evident. It is no coincidence that 40 Ways In could be read to resemble something as microscopic as an amoeba, or (relatively) macroscopic, as the human heart with its arteries flowing in and out.