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Anthony McCall — Shadow as Material
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Light rendered volumetric shadow builds material boundary
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Spatial Construction
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Anthony McCall
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light • shadow • cone

Shadow as Material

Anthony McCall — Shadow as Material

Darkness gains density.

Presence thickens.

Shadow holds weight.

What gains density?

Shadow is usually understood as immaterial, yet it thickens visually.

Darkness acquires weight.

What continues is presence formed through obscurity.

Structural Concepts

Spatial Construction
Space is deliberately built through structure, alignment, and enclosure.
Light
Illumination that reveals, conceals, or reshapes form.
Perception
The way structure is registered by the eye and mind.
Volume
The three-dimensional space occupied or enclosed by form.
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