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Nobody Here But Us at the Auckland Office Tower Plaza

Richard Deacon
Sculpture
Nobody Here But Us at the Auckland Office Tower Plaza
Photo via My Midnight Moon

Richard Deacon:

“There is a big steel work I did recently that took six years. There is a moment in the middle when it is always quite slow-going because you are just making stuff, but the end is always exciting. You can make quite radical decisions in the end, turn things upside down. I have sometimes made up a lot of components – twists, bends, and all that – and then assembled them, which puts another stage into the making process. You don’t need to have an idea, you just need to think, ‘I like this, I like that…’”