I had a look at Mona Hatoum’s work online, and I’ve actually seen her work in person at the Whitecube in Bermondsey.

Her work is often about conflict and contradiction which invokes tension in the viewer. I think I want to achieve that in my work, as it’s not quite there yet. Hatoum’s sculpture, Hot Spot (I think there are several versions of Hot Spot in different scales and displays) is said to be mesmerising to look at but is at the same time dangerous, in a literal colour-coded sense and poetically. I’m predicting that the washing up liquid on the metal sheet creates a conflict between the neat and the disorganised. Although I can’t say for definite until the work is completed.