This sculpture forms part of an ongoing series exploring the concept of Bounded Creativity — the idea that limits and constraints, while often perceived as restrictive, can also act as powerful catalysts for creative and innovative thinking.

Jump Start depicts a moment of creative release from a solid, weighty organisational form. The grounded base suggests structure, stability, and institutional constraint, while the angular, contained mass conveys pressure held within. Emerging from this form, a fine, twisting copper element represents creativity breaking free — fragile yet energetic, exploratory, and alive.

Rather than resisting constraint entirely, the sculpture suggests that tension itself generates momentum. The restrictive body becomes the very mechanism that enables creativity to spring forward, providing the force required for a sudden shift — a “jump start” into a new creative pathway.

Jump Start reflects the paradox at the heart of innovation: that creativity often gains its greatest energy not in open freedom, but at the precise moment it escapes limitation.