Performance to mark the first filling of hydro lake Dunstan, Clyde, New Zealand - Lloyd Godman Lake Fill I - May 1992

Again, systematically, a small nail was driven into the top of each erect post, and between the stakes I strung the taut lines of a fine white charting thread that clearly defined in another space the plan of the wooden skewers that confined the body shape on the naked earth below. (Firstly the earth is ominously dissected by the imaginary lines of the surveyor, the thin line on the plan; severed and gashed by the ingenuous mark in the intangibility of imaginary space.) Next I elected to use a thick felt pen from the array of materials and tools at my disposal and on the upright posts I rewrote the sun-faded word  "FILL" that already existed from a previous life, a previous surveying.