Patricia worked on 245 Hammersmith Road as a project architect for over four years before Legal & General offered her the opportunity to develop an artwork that would animate the main reception space of the new office building.

Around this time, she was selected for an artist’s residency in Varanasi and a concept for the artwork began to resonate with her. She was studying the process of handcrafting saris using gold thread when she had this idea of using the thread as an instrument for storytelling within a three-dimensional tapestry. As her research continued, she saw these hands beginning to merge with the threads themselves – as if each individual one connected the hand and the act of weaving. The looms became both natural sculptures and three-dimensional physical connectors.

Patricia decided that the piece for 245 Hammersmith Road would become a homage to all the hands involved in the crafting of the building. She saw a parallelism between the build process and the weaving and wanted to create something that would materialise each individual effort. The artwork was to become a window into the soul of the building, threading people together as a living sculpture.

The intervention consist of a rupture in the concrete wall of the main reception, from which concrete panels open outwards, generating a three-dimensional space integrated within the fabric of the building. Internally, the panels are coated with dark blue silk, an invitation for the visitor to connect with an infinite space, while shining against the dark background the 3000 golden threads represent the 3000 hands that helped shape the building.