Interstice indicates a pause or interruption — something incomplete, a semitone between stages. The metaphor of found laboratory equipment and sculpted glass suits the work’s scientific implications: chemical additives and fire transform glass, which is both fragile and tough, and may be equated to the body under siege.

The hybridised shapes draw on cells, neurons, dendrites, axons and nodes; the salt has medicinal properties and is part of the chemistry that sustains living beings. (From LiveWire, 2006.)

The work was later reconfigured, with the artist Ciara Struwig, into a mirrored display cabinet for the boardroom of the South African Military Health Services, where it is now held.