OBS-ART-138
Carol Bove — Steel and Stone Works
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Interval as Weight
OBS-ART-138
Material Presence
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-138
Origin:
usa
Era:
2000s-present
Themes / Lineage:
contemporary sculpture, material relation
Field Notes:
Distance carries mass. Objects remain separate. Weight is distributed.
Quiet Modernism appears here as distance treated as a material condition.

Interval as Weight

Carol Bove — Steel and Stone Works

Distance carries density.

Spacing gains pressure.

Relation holds mass.

How does distance carry force?
Spacing is often read as empty, yet it gains density. Distance presses rather than separates. What continues is weight carried by interval.

Spacing is often read as empty, yet it gains density.

Distance presses rather than separates.

What continues is weight carried by interval.

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