Can gallery art change anything?  This work asks the question as to  whether Art can bring about change or be useful from within the context of the gallery? A quotation by Erik Eriksson* was written  in gunpowder on the floor "anamorphically" so that it  reads upright  only for the camera.

 

The text discusses the relationship between play and work, which I took to be a metaphor for the nature of art versus  use, function or the political. So if, by definition, art and play are without purpose, how can art have value in terms of the ability to bring about change?

 

The piece was performed, ignited & exploded, at the private-view to a large audience. No one was hurt, and nothing changed.