Olympics 2012 in art: Richard Wentworth glimpses the race that brought Bradley Wiggins gold

Richard Wentworth says of his work: 'The 30-year habit of summer camping sets me apart from world events. Catching sight of televisions in bars is the kind of glimpsing I enjoy – images, languages and "events" all arbitrarily associated with time and displacement. Coming from the first TV generation, I can remember the way spaces were before the magnetic flicker entered our rooms. The latch on this door will remind me of the warm domestic afternoon in early August 2012 when our friends invited us to watch London as a site of Olympic spectacle. An odd thing if you know the city well, but much stranger if you are camping a long way away.' Illustration: Richard Wentworth/guardian.co.uk