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"What do we want from nature? To master it? Well, collecting is a kind of mastery. To admire it merely? Well, bronze castings offer a more durable end to admiration than any dewy, uncast object—which is likely, beneath the impress of our scrutinizing and the unravelling of entropic time, to descend into morphological ruin. To bronze a sea urchin or anything else is to delay its disintegration. A cast sea urchin is, to sound Duchampian for a moment, a Delay in Bronze.
7) And is this Delay in Bronze a beatitude-imbued memorial, or is it a slow bronze hand-grenade, ready to explode in slow-motion in the face of the natural rhythms of the universe?"...Gary Michael Dault
Art Post; Walking The Line #27: Sea Urchins
10/24/2006
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