He must have been following the same road as I 2026 – approx 65 x 33x 30cm, plaster, wire, jute, spray paint, mdf
The title is Beckett’s, the recognition of the fellow traveller, the other who has arrived at the same point by the same route without prior arrangement, whose presence confirms that the road was real because someone else followed it.
The plinth has been incorporated into the work. Deep cobalt spray paint descends from the sculpture’s base through the supporting structure, bleeding from blue at the top to white at the bottom, giving the plinth a sky, the same deep blue of the nocturnal paintings in this series, the atmospheric depth that the flower paintings have been working against and within. The sculpture and its support share a world. The plinth is not neutral. It is the sky the figure has been travelling through.
The figure on top is the most explicitly figural sculpture in the series, crouching, compressed, the plaster and jute form reading unmistakably as a body in a posture of exhaustion or contemplation, having arrived at this point on this plinth without knowing it was a destination. White, unmarked, newly cast or newly found, the archaeological object recovered from the road rather than made for the plinth.
He must have been following the same road. The figure crouches on its blue sky and does not look up. The road brought it here. That is sufficient.