The Sun piece represented my first sculptural exploration into incorporating colour into my work though bundle dying collected forest matter and cooking spices, onto textile-based materials like cotton. I could see nature as both my subject matter and my sculpting material. The recurring hemispherical and spherical shapes throughout my work are a direct inspiration from existing spheres in nature, such as eyeballs, flowers like the seed head of a dandelion, planets and cells. The shapes carry themes of containment and expansion and in my Sun work, the shape offers a multiplicity of meanings from a heavily pregnant belly to a bacterial growth on a wall. It is designed to reflect both the positive and negative.