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The Distance, a Kiss With String Attached

Rodan's work is a kiss, plus a Duke shop's mile of string. I wanted to do something with a mile of string for some time and then all of a sudden they came together. And so I just thought the kiss, which it's part of a bigger sculpture called the Gates of Hell. The kiss in that context is very dark. A couple get murdered by the woman's husband because she's having adulterous affair. It's more kind of loaded. Then this gay couple from Britain, commission Rodan to make another version of it. And it got put on show in the town hall of Lewis. There was too lewd for them. Too lewd for graphic effect.

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