“It is [about] when you are in two minds about something.”[1]

‘This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed at Home’ (1996) is an early work from the ‘Natural History’ series, consisting of a bisected pig. The animal is contained within two glass and steel tanks which slide mechanically “like a bacon slicer; slowly, tragically” to unite then separate the halves in perpetuity.[2] Titled after the nursery rhyme, the piece was part of a number of new works which incorporated moving elements, presented in 1996 at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in the exhibition ‘No Sense of Absolute Corruption’. In a similar manner to the rotating spin paintings unveiled at the exhibition, and the tri-vision billboard ‘The Problems with Relationships’ (1996), there is an implied endlessness to the movement incorporated into the works.