© Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (exterior view of Day’s End), 1975-1986, Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Third Streaming, New York
LF Every time I think about Gordon’s work, I simply cannot avoid thinking about the current Health and Safety legislation, Risk Assessments and normative behaviour… JF That is one of the really inspiring things about Days’ End: he wanted to make this piece so he just went ahead and he did it. A lot of people can argue that you could not do that nowadays, but I am sure you could also have made that argument at the time as well because it was illegal. At the end of the day he went and he did it knowing that there could be consequences. He just wanted to make this work. 87