Poised Steel is part of a series of works that investigate materiality, ephemerality and those illusive interstice moments between material states, and between the audience and the work. Poised Steel is a artwork held in suspended balance; poised in a state of fluidity, captured by contingent forces exerted upon the material via the process of counter strung shock chord cabling. Poised between ravelled and unravelled, this is an artwork in a state of equilibrium under tension.