Hughes' work is full of irony. By creating a world solidified into perspective
he makes pictures that come alive before our eyes.
In the myth of the sculptor
Pygmalion makes a stone woman, whom Aphrodite brings to life as Galatea. Hughes
makes wooden lumps of space and you bring them to life by looking at them.
It is sculpted painting, solid space.
Murray McDonald, April 2002


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