Hundreds of my tiny handmade porcelain fish shimmering in a detail of my installation ‘The Floating Exchange’. This interactive installation I made in 2014 for ‘Itadakimasu’ was by far one of my most exciting projects. I loved watching my audience swoop in and deconstruct this gorgeous piece, a bamboo ship hull dangling with glittering gold and white porcelain fish. By each breaking a fish from its silken thread and tying something on in exchange my audience transformed this work, to something I couldn’t expect or control. Some brought things with them, anticipating thoughtfully, while others rummaged in pockets and purses. Some gave generous and loved items, others attached unwanted artefacts from their day. I made this artwork as a symbol, to inspire thought about how we each take individually from nature and offer a return in some form and how this collective of individual choices can shape and change the natural world irrevocably for either better or worse.