The sculpture In Frequencies is a good example of how the human head can be transformed within Cragg’s work. Profiles are pulled and stretched horizontally. They are also pulled into one another, turning a single head into a collective collision of heads. In Frequencies is not a portrait, rather the portrayal of collective thinking, a configuration and a zeitgeist. Cragg is often interested in group formations and figurations – heads and bodies interwoven, as one form is extended into another. This sculpture highlights this, while also giving us an image of human thought as a landscape. As Cragg has stated: ‘I am interested in expressing thoughts as topographies.’
Jon Wood, 'Tony Cragg: 21st Century Sculptor,' 2021