170 x 102 cm diameter
5’6" x 40" diameter

Perspex, fibre-glass, turntable, fluorescent light; kinetic.

Tate Gallery 1986, Gift of Linda and Louis Tanner; Flaines Cultural Centre, France 1971.

Belonging to a series of conical sculptures I started in 1965, Space Displace Koan is layered with elliptical coloured sections lit from inside. The cone spins slowly at a constant speed; so that the viewer’s eye focuses on the lines which, in turn appear to dissolve the volume of the sculpture. It is as if the lines move through the volume, whereas in fact the volume is spinning as a whole.