A Grey Area: Boxing & Memory

plasticene on astroturf, 16x16 feet, 1995

Jane Mulfinger & Graham Budgett - a commission for the inIVA touring exhibition BOXER
curated by John Gill and featured on BBC National Television in "The Art Marathon"

PROPOSAL: A boxing ring-sized square of grey Plasticine, a uniform 1.5 inches thick, is strategically placed as 'paving' over which visitors to the exhibition may freely pass. Almost the entire surface of the semi-soft material is imprinted with the names of the champions of every weight in the recorded history of boxing. The appearance of this slab is reminiscent of memorials set in stone, or perhaps of reductive Modernist artworks, but this edifice will gradually be eroded by its public as they leave traces of their own fleeting presence. A GREY AREA>