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Systems of Clarity

Structure as organism

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Structure as organism

ART–CON–CLA

Structure as organism

Index Code:

ART–CON–CLA

Orgin:

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Field Notes:

structure as organism · geometry as empathy · form as participation

Defining Moment:

Early 1950s — structure as breath; form became language

Lygia Clark

(

1920–1988

)

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Clark built a world where structure could breathe.

Her folded metal sculptures and participatory works dissolved the boundary between object and body.

Geometry opened into experience; touch became a form of thought.

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In her world, modernism was no longer static — it inhaled, exhaled, and lived.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Lygia Clark’s work, this approach appears where bodily interaction activates structure.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Lygia Clark’s work, this approach appears where bodily interaction activates structure.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Neo-Concrete Movement

Geometric form reengages the body and lived experience.

Observartory

Lygia Clark — Bichos

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

William Anastasi

Chance as structure

Geometry as ethics

In Dialogue

Geometry as ritual

Utility as design