Gill Gatfield – Suspended Sentence

Suspended Sentence 2009 Physics Room Kiosk, Christchurch NZ

Hooked to the electricity mains and suspended inside a steel sentry box, a barbed 'I' pulsates in a central city square.  In daylight, the text is a slender line drawing, a subtle refrain to the noise and constant passage of city workers.  As night falls and the space becomes the domain of streetkids, skaters and nightworkers, the text beats bright and insistent.  Incomplete and open to each viewer's reading of 'I', the work enables a collective body of unique multiples.

Bibliography: Physics Room Archive