A Fresh Bunch of Flowers
Serpentine Gallery, London

Exactly ten years after the death of Stephen Cripps, an artist who used sound and fire in his original and influential actions, I created an ephemeral but monumental work for him with Richard Wilson and Paul Burwell.

Flowers which expressed moments in Cripps’s life, suggested or contributed by his friends, were frozen into clear blocks of ice creating a 10’ x 36’ structure which melted over the course of a day leaving wilted debris at nightfall.

In the evening Paul, Richard and I launched the book that had just been published on Stephen, literally into the air, by detonating it with pages flying through the air.