Preaching to the Converter

Exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW during Perspecta 1985 Preaching to the Converter combined Triwall Cardboard, Velvet and Cast Iron in a seven-metre flow across the Museum floor.

A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the perspective of a child.  Castles and reverberatory furnaces, a liquid river of molten steel, or is it blood, flowing from the maw of a Bessemer Converter.  Buoyant on its surface hundreds of pistols in rusty cast iron bob along towards a Throne setting surmounting an Olympic podium, an ambigious promise!

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