Tan's work recently has focused on the approaches and hardwares of gambling
(an increasing obsession in Australia) as a central metaphor, where the
individual is positioned in a web of various demands and laws: the wish
to gain money for 'free', the inevitable fact that it is the casino/pokie
owner that the odds favour, and the pitching of the individual against the
laws of chance and luck. The randomness, quixoticness and hopelessness of
the task is reinforced in his specially constructed poker machines.