For the exhibition Untitled #1050 (25 November 2017 – 14 October 2018) this work was displayed with the following label:

“I was working in formal abstraction and paring everything down and peeling everything away until there was virtually nothing there. Then I stopped work and started building everything up again. […]

“What interests me is that it’s a structure of opposites and so it’s a structure that is all encompassing. The opposites are held in tension and balance. It’s hierarchical, and therefore very unfashionable, but I don’t actually see you can avoid hierarchy if you’re constantly organising and ordering. Just putting one thing in front of another is a hierarchical process. The structure is like a map to work by, so that everything is seen in relation to its opposite or to the other parts. It just seemed a more holistic way for me to work.”

—Julia Morison, 1991