I’ve been to few exhibitions where Rachael Whiteread’s work was on show, and I’ve always felt she stands out from the run of the mill YBAs. She expresses an intellectual rigour that is missing from the showmen of the group.

Her work seems not to be about the object, but about the spaces inbetween.

Coming up from the beach this morning, I noticed the plant in the picture. The sun was so bright, I didn’t notice the plant itself at first, but the structure and the shapes inbetween. It looks quite like a scientist’s model of a carbon based nano structure.

I felt that all the spaces between the spines would happily accept a pingpong ball.

It’s a kind if convergence with science and art – the mega and the nano exploring the same thing. And so it should be. Art and science should work together. All the greatest scientific insights have come from artistic moments.