Jamieson Miller has created a sculpture of cypress pine and stain which, while visually interesting in itself, had a tough time competing for attention with some of the sculptures around it. Being placed right near Anguish in particular makes for a tough gig.

Even in this shot I'll bet that some of you are looking up at Steve Croquett's Jolly Giants in the background, aren’t you?

Miller's statement is that he enjoys creating "simple forms, where the internal sections are removed, leaving interlocking plains and geometric voids". He hopes that it produces and interesting and intriguing visual play.

It's interesting that right at the time that this exhibition was on legislation was passing through Federal Parliament relating to the new NBN optical fibre broadband network. Part of that deal involves structurally separating Telstra, the much-loathed former government telecommunications monopoly which was floated in three tranches during the 1990's / 2000's. (And which a lot of people have taken a huge capital loss on. I was never a direct Telstra shareholder (odds are that my super funds were, though) because I loathed the company so much regardless of its fat dividend stream. I lucked out on that one.)

That means that Telstra will now be a retailer only, and will sell its existing network to the NBN entity. That in turn means that it won't be able to obstruct other retailers from obtaining network access, which should mean less work for the lawyers given the number of legal actions that have taken place over that issue over the years, many involving the competition regulator. (This isn’t all bad news for Telstra; its copper network, while expansive, is aging and will become obsolete over time. Selling it off now frees Telstra of the burden of maintenance for an asset which has a shrinking customer base, and of the need to fund a shedload of both capex and maintenance costs over the next 20 years or so.)

What does that have to do with anything? Telstra's logo is based around the letter "T". In this case, a gutted T. Just like Telstra is being gutted by the removal of its wholesale function. Time to evolve or die, big T.