Welded steel, 2000.
The exclamation mark turns the title into an announcement, the way a shop sign calls out what it has in stock. The sculpture sets out three kinds of provision, each in the form its kind takes.
A squat jar stands at the lower left with rods and a disc standing in it, as tools are kept in a pot on a bench: upright, loose and within reach. Above it a rack spans the top of the piece, with a zigzag of teeth along its upper edge like a comb, a place for things to hang or catch. At the right end of the rack a curved crank handle hangs down and ends in a dark knob.
Each is a way of keeping something ready: held in a container, hung on a rack, set up to be turned. Supplies are what’s put by against future need, and nothing in this arrangement is shown in use. The store is laid out and untouched.
