"Before Departure," 2008. “With a crossbow, the most energy is right there before you shoot,” she says. “I wanted to make a sculpturework that controls this energy, or better yet, attempts to control this energy.” Aladogan herself sculpted in clay the sharp forms seen in the drawing, but the 300 spear-like elements that make up the beak at the back of the installation —inspired by the tesselated geometries of Moorish architecture — had to be cast by the 100-year-old Dutch ceramics company Koninklijke Tichelaar. The wool ropes were made by the sheep-keeping designer Claudy Jongstra.