A critical response for the One Day Sculpture website on the work Le 'Welsh' Man's 24 hour by Bedwyr Williams. The work was curated by Siv Fjaerstad. A version of this essay also appears in Cross, D and Doherty, C (eds) One Day Sculpture, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2009, pp130-132 and in Booth,J (ed), Le 'Welsh' Man's 24 hour: Bedwyr Williams, Enjoy, Wellington, pp 6-11.