Hanging isolated and rootless, the end of the stem of Pollock’s oversized white flower seems have undergone a traumatic severing from the plant. A thick white powder coating accentuates its despondent amputated droop.

Pollock’s work explores Arcadian views, pastoral ideals, and how the British countryside is littered

with both beauty and grotesqueness, whilst infected with nostalgia that leaks contradiction and ignorance. Pollock believes that once a flower has been picked its life span is forced to speed up, as humans take over the control of something beautiful to satisfy desire. He thinks of flowers as spectators of the countryside, always there watching and wilting with disapproval, as we pick flowers to put in our homes, in our hair. Applying his teeth to the material, Pollock is making a strong statement about the worst thing a human being can do to another living thing.

Picked 2 is made from sand-casted aluminium sections welded together. The original iteration of the work is made from air dry and epoxy clay, which is then bitten by the artist. By casting one piece multiple times, the artist shows how a single action can become something more.