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\n[Martin Puryear’s] sculptures look the way they do because they need to in order to mean what they do. The labor that is compressed into them allows them to work over time, and the time it takes to make them is the time taken to mean it. That they so often employ specialized tradesmen\u2019s skills in their making allows them to work at the edges of utility\u2014vessels that might be dwellings in the shapes of bodies\u2014and in that fertile seam between representation and abstraction.
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A quote from “From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual<\/a>\"\"” by David Levi Strauss.<\/p>\n

Why do I blog this?<\/strong> I like the way that time is emphasized here rather than the outcome. The emphasis is on the practice and process, which have so much to say about the sculpture. This distinction comes up often while materializing ideas. So often we can throw away ideas but once the idea becomes material, we’re less inclined to consider getting rid of it, likely because of the commitment of time and the costs of tangible materials. Some material things are still prototypes of an idea and not yet the right expression of an original idea, or stated intent. This means that it’s okay to put them aside as an expression of an idea because it doesn’t feel complete or does not “mean” what they are fully or satisfyingly. The gap between ideas and their materialization perhaps too often is a commitment rather than a looped path for refinement.<\/p>\n

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