Table Chasers was shown at Australian Galleries, Sydney in 2017. This work was made from off-cuts produced from The Eclipse, also made that year. Three triangular prisms were stacked in the gallery matter of factly.
Table Chasers 2017 Australian Galleries, Paddington
The three parts of Table Chasers were subsequently reworked as vertical elements incorporating other pre-made figures. Renamed Three Chapters, this was shown at Hillview in the Southern Highlands in 2018 and 2019.
Three Chapters 2019 Hillview, Moss Vale
Three Chapters was brought to Wamboin and made into The Book. in 2020. Its earlier forms, so compelling at the time, are now reduced to a random process. The Book makes sense in the 9 metre height.
The Book 2020 Wamboin
Was the work made over three years or was it made over one? Are the components of its history any longer relevant? It’s a book because it has such an arduous history and because it is so big, like a book is big. It goes on, like a book does with its words stacked up, small letters which make up the small words which make the sentences and paragraphs and chapters.
The Book in the valley
You can make out The Book through the leaves of the trees as you walk down into the valley from the hilltop.
The Book 2020