20 Slideshows

If 20 Sites were a symphony, which of course it is, then sites 9 to 12 constitute its slow movement whose generally pastoral tone temporarily gives way to a bleak spareness.

As well as the main entrance to Ruskin Park, we see the imposing tower of the World Headquarters of the Salvation Army. As so often in 20 Sites no pattern or plan is discernible in the changes made to things or their positioning or even their existence. It is difficult to account for the preparation of a flower bed in 1973, whose display reaches its peak in 1975, goes to seed in 1976, is erased in 1977 to remain more and more vestigially visible until in 1987, when as If to mark the 10th anniversary of its abandonment, a Christmas tree is planted by chance or artistry, dead centre of its virtually invisible circle. It made little progress by 1989 and still looks sketchy in 1992.