See Revised Edition 

Discovered tattered and neglected on a market junk stall, this 1879 leather-bound copy of The History of Australasia served as an immediate analogy for history: beaten up, marginalized, and discarded. See Revised Edition physicalises the containment of that history, locking the raw, foundational narrative away behind an unyielding cage of hand-riveted industrial steel and dual brass padlocks. The work explores the suppression of knowledge through a sharp, ironic lens, where the title acts as a bureaucratic footnote implying the original text has been deemed unauthorized or obsolete by institutional gatekeepers. By utilizing the literal language of industrial advancement—steel and rivets—to imprison the past, the piece suggests that modern "revisions" are often just palatable forms of censorship. Ultimately, by permanently transforming a functional object of shared knowledge into an inaccessible relic, the work strips away the illusion of intellectual freedom and forces an unsettling question: who holds the keys to our narrative, and what remains hidden behind the locks?