OBS-PS-1966
Primary Structures — The Jewish Museum, 1966
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Form as Condition
OBS-PS-1966
Material Intelligence
Atlas Index:
OBS-PS-1966
Origin:
United States — New York
Era:
1960s
Themes / Lineage:
surface-and-structure
Field Notes:
Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, 1966.
Quiet Modernism appears here as form sustained as an ongoing condition.

Form as Condition

Primary Structures — The Jewish Museum, 1966

Form persists as a stable condition.

Resolution is withheld.

Change remains internal.

What doesn’t resolve?
Form is often expected to culminate or complete, but completion never arrives. Change remains internal. What continues is form held as condition rather than outcome.

Form is often expected to culminate or complete, but completion never arrives.

Change remains internal.

What continues is form held as condition rather than outcome.

Structural Concepts

Material Intelligence
Material behavior actively determines structural and formal decisions.
This work has not yet been mapped to structural principles.
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