"This watch has all the iconic elements of my work — the animation of the tourbillon, the repeater, the unique cage and the engraving in the back".
It allows me to break into the third dimension and create sculptural forms, yet still retain the time-based elements of my work.
The element that ties all of my work together is something I call sensoriality: everything that's related to the senses.
Ek's work from the past year, however, shows a much more tightened focus, with recurring subject matter and visual scenarios, and an emphasis on a blue and pink palette, which seem to have become the artist's signature style: "I don't want to bore myself or others, but I guess I need some of my work's elements to stay the same or at least to evolve slower," Ek tells The Creators Project.
Like a lot of my work, there's an element of nostalgia somewhere in the grain.
The elements of work content, work environment, communication and collaboration, and work organization are discussed.
"I have a lot of architectural elements in my work" she said, "and I wanted to try pieces that were small and inexpensive".
I've lived in London for nearly 20 years, and that has certainly brought the influence of a lot of clean, polished elements into my work too.
The tricky thing I've found is my annoying habit of reining in the more fantastical elements of my sketches when working them up, it's taken a while for it to sink in that for this commission I can go a little bit crazy.
"This new direction allows me to articulate my surroundings with some of the fantasized elements contained in my work".
