Raft

The idea of a raft is of something lashed together, an inventive solution to a problem, of making do from available materials, of creating something which may be lifesaving. A raft also suggests travelling, and specifically travelling over water. This particular raft however is associated with the desert through the text laboriously stenciled onto its surface. It is a raft therefore which could never have the opportunity to float. The text begins in one corner of the structure and unfolds continuously in 24,948 characters which comprise several thousand words in six different languages. It can not be read in an unbroken sequence however as whole lines are obscured by the structure of the raft itself, by the object created to float these ideas expressed in words.
Excerpt from the Art Gallery of New South Wales' website

Lewis, Ruark

Carter, Paul

1995

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