In Works/Texts to 1974 I gave a breathtakingly tedious account of the making of Benches, the result of a perversely literal interpretation of a request from the Tate Gallery (who purchased the work) to furnish them with any details of its conception and execution. I more or less specified where each tube of paint was bought, and enumerated the endless coin-tossing that determined the width of the stripes in the colour catalogues that dominate the picture. Here stripped of the circumstantial minutiae and technical apparatus, are some edited highlights.  > >

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