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I realise that the name should change. It should no longer be “A Line Made By Walking and Assembling Bits and Pieces of the Bodywork of Illegally Dumped Cars Found at the Edge of Roads and Tracks in the Illawarra Escarpment”. Instead it should be “A Line Made By Walking and Cutting Out Bits and Pieces of the Bodywork of Illegally Dumped Cars Found at the Edge of Roads and Tracks in the Illawarra Escarpment”. The emphasis is not upon assemblage (sculptural, symbolic, reconstitutitive) but upon a problematic gesture of intervention. The focus is upon action and reflection, rather than upon shaping a transformative aesthetic thing. In a sense the gallery assemblage of metal pieces, photographs and text represents simply another, subsequent axis of action, not dissimilar, in a way, to the action of cutting in that it also signals a removal, an absence, an uncertainty.