proposal for a sculpture on a traffic circle University of Texas at El Paso |
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my viewsThe possibility to erect a sculpture near the University of Texas at El Paso, on the edge of the campus, seems to me an opportunity to enlarge its significance and implication on this area of El Paso. In this sense it can make a statement not only directed at the university, but give testimony to the region as a whole. In the papers, which I have received, I read that there is the probability of the sculpture becoming an icon for the UTEP and surrounding community, and/or El Paso. On the page form and movement I write about the similarities between the characteristics of an icon and a those of a sculpture on a traffic circle. my idiom and symbolic connotationsForm is for me the result of a mathematical and geometric approach; I could say 'systems', but that would be going a little too far. My art is not the rigid result of a system. A system must not dictate, but is available to be made use of. The legibility of art depends for a great deal on a common set of rules – interpreted as loosely as one can manage. I operate in the area between the second and the third dimension. This is no twilight zone. It is all visible and can be discovered. The proposed sculpture is constructed by uniting three two-dimensional forms to create a spatial object – two identical half circle contours and a straight line, which connects the two open ends of the curves.
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