Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.
Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see. - Richard Serra
Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
- Richard Serra
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work. - Richard Serra
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
To see is to think, and to think is to see. - Richard Serra
To see is to think, and to think is to see.
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not intere… - Richard Serra
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not intere…
Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and wha… - Richard Serra
Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and wha…
Art is not democratic. It is not for the people. - Richard Serra
Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.
Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight. - Richard Serra
Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpt… - Richard Serra
If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpt…
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. - Richard Serra
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.
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