Red Hot consists of a one metre iron cube heated to the cusp of altered states; an object balanced at the edge of its own being, neither solid nor liquid. Experienced first through light, then through heat, the work ends when the cube is cool enough to touch. As a region which has altered dramatically over recent years, the North East contains the social, historical and industrial context that will give this work its drama and metaphorical values, reflected in the distinctive location of the piece. An urban and economic landscape requiring change reflected in an object oscillating gently between two states.