The block of river red gum was cut from a 10,000-year-old tree excavated from a quarry . When timber is buried for so long it is starved of oxygen and saturated with iron and silica; the oxidised material that results is part timber and part fossil. Often buried deep down for millions of years, organic materials, plants and trees can transform further into organic compounds, including crude oil. Oil, a fossil fuel, is a key ingredient in the polypropylene used to manufacture the ubiquitous, long-lasting plastic chair that Wright has dismembered and embedded in the block of wood

Mono block conceptualises ‘metamorphosis’.  A polypropylene plastic chair held in 10,000-year-old Ancient Red Gum. The wood is no longer timber nor a fossil - if undisturbed for 50 million years, it becomes oil, the material required to make polypropylene. The future, both holding and consuming the past.