Construction (Into the One Ear / and out the Other)

Notes

“A head is buried up to its neck in sand, the face resembling a soccer ball. A plastic funnel in each ear brings us to the saying, 'In one ear and out the other', perhaps referring to the fatuous rhetoric that surrounds sport. Balanced on the head is a small football, found on a beach, a touch of William Tell! In the corner is an assemblage that resembles an Olympic flame, a box of matches beside it. A white pill in the foreground - 'All this brouhaha gives me a headache'. An eye for an eye? A cauliflower for an ear? Is X's sprained ankle a subject worthy of national debate?”¹

^1. Michael Stevenson (2004) Stanley Pinker: Works from the Artist's Collection, online, accessed 27 January 2026.

Provenance

The DinksFãStan Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Literature

Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Stanley Pinker: Works from the Artist's Collection, 1 December 2004 to 15 January 2005, illustrated in colour in the exhibition catalogue on page 101.