The deer is a recurring idea and form in my work. An immature female animal, it is a vehicle to represent fragility, innocence, the vulnerability of nature, something which is fleeting – poised to disappear. I have placed it in varying landscapes and contexts, as a defiant yet fragile witness. ‘Hide/Trap 2’ is the polar opposite of another work, the pure white ‘Hide/Trap’ 2006, which is about the folly of over-protectiveness, as well as referring to the white cube of art, as a safe but sterile container of artistic expression. With ‘Hide/Trap 2’ dark materials form a black rectangular solid. The ground is a concentration of machine-produced substances and life-depleted matter. The deer is unable to move within a brittle scorched hedge, poised to flee, but immobilised by the legacy of a carbon-fuelled culture.