Page 41 - Studio International - November 1968
P. 41
Symbols get in the way of direct experience . . . they have to be read
and translated.
It is a question of getting rid of devices.
The work may become symbolic.
It is the extension of metaphor.
The work must be perceived instantly, not read in time. Sculpture
in the round, whether open or closed (like composition in painting),
is measurement in time and experience in retrospect. Time as
formalism.
Time is involved with hope. One is concerned with the absurd.
One of the problems of inductive sculpture (non-relational sculpture)
is that of extension without becoming multi-viewpoint (sculpture in
the round). Numerical extension must work without simply creating
a pleasure from number. The unit must be meaningful in itself before
being repeated in the form of permutation. q
[All illustrations on pp. 198-201 are the work of William Turnbull.]
facing page, Lingum, 1967
stainless steel, 74¾ in. high
left, 6 of 9, 1966-7
steel painted red,
84+ in. high
