Welded steel, 1999.
Revelation is the last book of the Bible, and the word is also what its Greek title, apokalypsis, means: an uncovering. The sculpture is the furniture for reading it. A long, heavy body stands on short feet. A plate on top tilts upward toward the right, the slope a lectern gives a book to face the reader. A second plate lies flat at the left with a ball at its edge, and a handle projects from the right end of the body.
A lectern presents a text to listeners. It is a table with its top angled for that one purpose, built to hold a book open and raised so that someone standing can read from it. This one holds nothing. The slope is bare, no book lies on it, and the body below and behind it is dark.
The text is the missing part of the work. The apparatus of reading is set up, angled and ready, and the book itself is left out. The revelation is still unread.
