The short piece is Gabriel talking about his artwork entitled working tables. He explains the process whereby it is an accumulation of years of collecting using and discarding objects. The piece is the result of the left overs, the unused and he amusingly refers to the left overs of the left overs. This made me think that all workshops, work tables accumulate the detritus of the work being undertaken unless they are regularly tidied. I can remember making inspections of the engineering workshop when I used to work. The workshop contained evidence of what had been recently work on and what was currently being worked. Tools, nuts and bolts, debris and dirty work clothes would be laying in various states. It was a constant task to remind the engineers to clean up and tidy up. In hindsight it was evidence of work completed, a picture of their toil. As Gabriel put it “evidence of a process”.

There are parallels to the selection of objects that I made for Exercise 1. I chose to select musical instruments that I have accumulated over the years but that are not used. They are the leftovers.

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