Balance developed through an exploration of form and a persistent testing of what materials and making techniques could be asked to do. Rounded elements are stacked, displaced and extended into cantilevers, creating objects that appear to rest at the edge of stability. Their apparent ease depends on carefully resolved relationships between weight, support and connection. I worked across the collection from design development and prototyping through fabrication and its final presentation. Sketches and digital models moved into physical studies and workshop trials, with each stage testing the possibilities established by the previous one. Collaboration with craft practices and specialist fabrication studios brought stone carving, metal casting, embroidery and upholstery into a shared process. The work involved resolving how separately made components would meet, how an experimental form would become a usable object, and how the collection would ultimately be assembled, handled and exhibited.