Misshapen and porous, with a coral-like texture, Pollock skull has been welded to the point of becoming white-hot and molten. The title 100mph reflects how the human’s race and need for instant satisfaction hurtles forward at great speed – where even when that speed is causing bone to melt (at 1670 ℃), we still carry on without a care, with gritted teeth and a grin.

Pollock’s skulls speak of how human existence is careering towards a tipping point, as the world is slowly burning. He talks about reaching a stage when our humanity is stripped away and we revert to our base selves, without guile and wit, language and tools. Where once the inner animal is exposed, we will once again have to scrabble and scrape and fight tooth and nail for everything we have.

The skulls are made from aluminium, parts sand casted from melted polystyrene and epoxy clay, together with other scrap aluminium sections welded to the point of becoming molten. Pollock then scratches and scores the aluminium with a plasma cutter (a process that cuts through electrically conductive materials by means of an accelerated jet of hot plasma): a process that is full of chaos and energy.