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Lygia Clark — Soft Works
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Material as Boundary
OBS-ART-074
Surface and Reflection
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-074
Origin:
Brazil
Era:
1960s
Themes / Lineage:
body relation • material fold
Field Notes:
fold • body • material
Quiet Modernism appears here as limits articulated through material thickness.

Material as Boundary

Lygia Clark — Soft Works

Material defines a precise limit.

Thickness replaces line.

Edge holds.

How does material define limit?
Material often signals thickness or enclosure, yet it sharpens into precision. Edge replaces bulk. What continues is boundary clarified through substance.

Material often signals thickness or enclosure, yet it sharpens into precision.

Edge replaces bulk.

What continues is boundary clarified through substance.

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