Painted welded steel, 34 x 24 x 24, 2000.
“Sink” is a fixture and also a verb, and the sculpture sets out the parts of the fixture one by one on a low table. Two shallow round basins lie side by side at the left with nothing in them. A tall post topped with a ball stands behind them as the tap, and a thin wire links its foot to the rim of the nearer basin like a supply pipe. A wedge-shaped ramp and a flat plate lie at the right, where a counter and a draining board would be.
The water is drawn as a line. A wire hangs from the top of the post and runs down its right side in long S-curves, ending in a small ball near the table. It falls in loops and wavers the way a thin stream does, and it spends its whole length going down. The line passes down the far side of the post, away from the basins, and doesn’t reach them. The tap, the stream and the basins share one composition and stay separate within it.
The fixture is rendered as a plain set of parts. Round dishes stand for basins, an upright with a knob stands for a tap, and a looping wire stands for flow. Sinking is what all of them are for: the water goes down and the vessels receive it.
