Distancing Device

David Dye
1970
Painted wood and mirror


"...an objectification of how I felt at that time about what it means to be an artist, which was to distance yourself from people in order to create."


The piece reads K E E P G O I N G in the mirror on the base as you move further away from it (the middle G is visible in shot).

I went into the art gallery to calm myself down after witnessing an attempted ram raid on a jewellers.  Not the relaxing Sunday I had planned.