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The World Keeps Turning

Scott Eady

Wednesday 17 May - 03 June

The installation includes a life-size John Wayne cast in resin, encased in buckskin, eyes shielded by the broad brim of his hat, who gazes out into Vivian Street about to fire the last 40 shots of his Winchester rifle. His gunbelt is empty of all but one cartridge, thirty-six of them spent on empty bronze bean tins shot full of lead and littering the floor. One tin remains standing on a fence-post awaiting the Winchester’s final blast. A huge inflatable moon bearing the marks of three bullet entry holes sits just meters away, a gesture of Hondo’s love for a woman who remains anonymous.
Eady says “Hondo was one of the most unobtainable characters ever played by John Wayne. He portrayed an image no man could ever live up to. My Hondo lovingly reproduces the aesthetic associated with Westerns and cowboys but sends up it hollowness evident in one of John Wayne’s own quotes: “Tomorrow – the time that gives a man just one more chance – is one of the many things that I feel are wonderful in life. So’s a good horse under you. Or the only campfire for miles around. Or a quiet night and a nice soft hunk of ground to sleep on…. It comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”


The World Keeps Turning 2006

Silent as gun smoke 2006