When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.
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This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.
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If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
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