The little truck from Dock Sud II (detail)

His mother passes away.

He begins to work in Direct Action, one of his largest and more complex works. He describes the process:

“[...] I had an internal image: one of a man climbing a pole in diagonal trying to cut something, presumably a power cable. The first thing I thought was to assign that vision to a childhood scene: someone who breaks a cable to untangle a kite they cannot fly anymore. I started drawing that diagonal, that cable, and I asked myself what I was doing. ‘That cable is weightless, it’s not going to stay up in the air. And that is going to be a monumental sculpture. I’m going to have to tie it from the walls. The diagonal with the man is going to be tied with tensors to the wall. Fine, let’s do that;’ I convinced myself. I kept on drawing and I made little models in ink and also solid, and when I put the walls on the model, I realised it was horrendous. ‘This is a whole object, the wall cannot be here’, I whispered to myself trying to explain to myself why I didn’t like it. And I drew again. And then, I came up with a