On Thin Ice 2

The exhibition was divided into two parts. In the white room there was the artist's response of large black, metal, laser-cut panels. The key eponymous work showed three large panels of raw mild steel rapidly fracturing apart like the summer melting sea ice. Another series of large panels were little more than frames, each with one small detail in one corner. They expressed the immense emptiness of the place and how the eye is drawn to one small lone detail that would be lost amid countless others in our world, such as a leaf in a forest. In the centre, David's photographs were projected from above onto a white bed of salt. The black room displayed the designer's development of more functional works, and the two rooms were divided by a translucent screen based on snowflakes. The pattern looked quite different from each side.