It's Saturday

For the 2004 Biennale of Sydney, Arkansas-born Berlin-based artist Jimmie Durham created this installation from a 1999 Ford Festiva hatchback and a two-tonne quartz boulder.

Originally the car was parked on the Opera House forecourt, and onlookers watched as Durham painted a face on the stone before it was dropped on the car from a crane.

In 2006, the piece was permanently installed in its current location at Walsh bay where I was today. On approach from either direction are roadworks signs by Australian artist Richard Tipping that read ‘ARTWORK AHEAD’ and on the reverse side 'END ARTWORK'.