Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.Robert Smithson
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
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