With Patrick's help, I managed to get the 4 steel plates onto the wall - complete with its unique identity number 366 - one of the 900 road panels on Hammersmith Bridge.
Next to the steel on the wall, I have put two of the rubberised coverings that I stripped off from the panels - one side has the red oxide paint which mirrors that on the panel and the other side has remnants of the asphalt from the road.
When I reviewed the room, it seemed one of the best pieces may be the worktop of the table - reminiscent of Dieter Roth's work.
Stacked the plates on wheels and compressed layers of plastic balls.
Went to the London Art Fair - was somewhat disappointing from a contemporary art point of view - in fact the highlight was a vintage, 1967, Faema E61 coffee machine, found in the Illy showroom within the Islington Business Centre - the missing bits were in the dishwasher ...
I had thought I'd seen most Boyle Family works but this one, titled Study for the Fire Series with Melted Records from 1989, was new on me.
Henry Moore - I am always struck and impressed by the precision spacing of the strings in these works.
Patrick Heron - Light Leaves 1956 - less colourful than his normal pieces but the occasional glimpse of red and yellow is effective.
Kazuhito Takedoi - twigs and cotton string - very delicate structure, again produced with exquisite precision.
Rob and Nick Carter - Paint Pigment Photograph series 2012 - interesting use of daytime fireworks with pigment.
Tom Lovelace - Yellow Rupture 2009 - good example of making a piece of work and then letting the photograph of it be another piece - replicates the original piece along the lines described in Roland Bathes writings on photography.
Finally, a video tour of my project space as it stood at the end of day two.
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