Nothing lasts forever is a text work – the words projected forward as white relief stamped letters onto black tape. The words NOTHING LASTS are separated by a 900mm black pause from the word FOREVER. As such, they are connected and separated providing contradictory meaning. NOTHING LASTS alludes to the fact that things, people, situations, everything is impermanent; they will all eventually perish. The isolated word FOREVER – suggests the opposite: everlasting, without an end, for eternity. Put together, NOTHING LASTS FOREVER suggests that things have their time, that they do exist with a certain degree of certainty, but will eventually come to an end.