The late afternoon sun shone directly into the tomb of the cat goddess, sitting on her throne. That sense of the
mysterious sacred and the chair really influenced my work for many years. As I worked, the pieces became
more and more elaborate. Usually it would take me about a week or two to build these things because I would
modify them as I photographed them.
ANDREA: It took you about two weeks to make each tableau, were you alone?
ARTHUR: I was always alone.
ANDREA: Your work has been described as an exploration of narrative still life, so the narrative that you’re creating
in these images has to do with tomb sculpture and your experience in Egypt?
Arthur Tress, The Appointment, 1986.
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