A photograph of a gold and red Kente cloth spoke to us immediately. The design would easily translate into copper or brass to make a flush, modern door that would reflect light – the light of the law, the light representing the highest court in the land.

We needed to create over 3 000 pieces to make up the doors … We had no option but to etch each metal piece. As we made the plates we wanted to find a way of working that would bring us close to the material … The entire door was made using this method of ‘listening’ to the material so that we had a more direct relationship with it, and in doing so we found an organic, heartfelt and earthy way of making.