UNIT-9910 A.LB. s1/1 ri

White granite, Unhulled rice

194.5×86×45.866 cm
1000 kg

I named my piece “Unit”, meaning the basic form beyond which it cannot be broken down further.
‘A.LB’ is an important abbreviation for the concept which led to this form. ‘s1/1’ is the scale, meaning that this work is actual size.
‘ri’ is an abbreviation for the thing that is stored inside, which, on this occasion, is one bale of unhulled rice.
I do not think the space in which the unit is installed is important. Whether it’s in a thicket, like this time, or plopped down in the middle of a city crowded with people, or rolling around on a family’s dinner table, or standing alongside the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, or buried in grass on the African savannah…
I could call it an object like the monolith envisioned by Stanley Kubrick.
But it’s not as overpowering as the monolith.