Now there’s a sequel. Turntable II is available, once again, from Paul Stolper Gallery – where it is on display until 9 March 2024. As before, it’s a signed and numbered limited edition, with just 150 being made . The starting price is £20,000, but the gallery expects that price to rise as it sells through the edition.
The LED lights are diffused through 68,000 holes in the Perspex – they required 44 hours of computer-controlled drilling – to diffuse the light through the surface of the piece.: Well, I kind of expected it to; when you scratch Perspex, it suddenly looks very, very bright, because it's catching light that would otherwise be going through between the two surfaces of the material. But I was surprised at how well it worked.
If there is a message it’s about impermanence and ephemerality and seizing the moment. There are always moments that are disappearing – you can't own this thing completely as it’s never finished.: I think that all the things that have made us such a toxic culture come from the idea of saying that something exists and that it is forever and held in place. Nature isn’t like that – it’s constantly changing and in flux. It seems to me to be a very good ecological message.