Roller

truck inner tubes
1977

Three rows of inflated truck inner tubes cross the gallery, pressing out against the walls. The first row is at eye level, the next at arms-reach and the last along the floor. An illusion of sideways pressure shifts the apparent shape of the space towards square, from its actual deep narrowness.

A site-specific installation in Willard Holmes’ Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver BC, in January 1977.