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- In a recently published compilation of essays on appropriation in Australian art edited by Rex Butler (Butler 1996) Terry Smith suggests that his influence on Tillers was more direct. Smith states 'Tillers had taken up one of the suggestions from breaking the provincialist bind which I had made in 1974 to do an Arshile Gorky, that is exaggerate your dependence to such an extent that you break through into another register of signification' (in Butler 1996, 257) Tillers denies any such influence. It is possible a misunderstanding arose out of the fact that Tillers was pursuing a BSc in Architecture at Sydney University when Smith was giving lectures at the Power Institute that tackled the issue of provincialism in more detail than that published in 'The Provincialism Problem' (Smith 1974). However, Tillers was in a separate faculty and states that he did not attend any of Smith's lectures.
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Although it would be possible for Tillers to remake Untitled so long as the Neco process is still available he has decided not to, for reasons that appear to be due to the serendipitous correspondences outlined above.
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