‘Working with Wire’ by Year 4/5Year 4Albuera Street Primary School

Working with wire in a linear way, we created our sculptures to show aflowing interpretation of movement and shape to represent our talismanicobjects.

We created our works by considering how we could transfer theperception of our talismanic object to wire: we were not merelyreplicating its appearance, but more intuitively thinking of whatimpression it has made on us and how we could share that visualrepresentation that words may not.

The objects and poems blend harmoniously within a structured boxformation. Our poetry is ever-present, written in white on a blackbackground, encased in a white box. The viewer of the talismanic objectmay hold the piece and simultaneously delve into the words, discoveringthe author’s construal.

We hope you enjoy our words and interpretive wire creations in ourinstallation.

---This poem was awarded First Place (Installation) for Poetry Object 2015

Judge's Notes:"Working with Wire stands out for me because I can imagine how theexperience of working with wire might inform the poets’ experience ofworking on a poem: bringing together words and objects, facts andrepresentations, the look of things but also the feel of things. The linearwire itself can itself serve as an image of how syntax can work in poetry,turned and worked together to make something new. The decision to writethe words of the poem in white on a black background draws out this

comparison between working with wire and working with language. Theprocess of making these sculptures also serves as an image of the processof writing: working and reworking forms in a way at once free and careful.The wire sculptures are shapes that contain air; they are things that canbe passed from hand to hand. They are beautiful considered and tangiblecompanions to the poems, and images of them."~Lisa Gorton, Poetry Object Judge 2015