'In... a small work called "Ruff" (2010), the herringbone pattern encircles a ball but it is also a form of encirclement or enclosure that is staggered and angular. It has the pattern of parquet flooring but it is brass; it is shiny but also partially painted out in black. The ball is made of the semi-precious stone red jasper and sits like an egg inside what comes to serve as some sort of nest, a protective shelter. And yet thinking of a ruff that would have been worn as an article of clothing, it could also be a form of torture.' Briony Fer, 'Zigzag: The Small Sculpture', Alison Wilding (Lund Humphries in association with Ridinghouse, 2018)