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Mel Bochner — Measurement Series
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Measurement as Form

Measurement as Form

Mel Bochner — Measurement Series

Proportion governs placement.

Units repeat.

Form stabilizes.

How does proportion act?
Measurement is often treated as a tool, yet it becomes the organizing force. Units repeat without deviation. What continues is form stabilized through measure.

In Bochner’s Measurement Series, measurement is not treated as a neutral tool — a way to describe space after form has already been decided.

That assumption is set aside here.

Measurement does not follow form.

It produces it.

Units repeat without deviation, not to illustrate scale, but to regulate placement itself.

Proportion becomes the organizing force rather than a descriptive one.

Nothing adjusts in response to composition or expression.

The work holds because measure never relaxes.

What continues is form stabilized through repeated quantification — where clarity emerges not from visual balance, but from adherence to a rule that does not adapt.

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