Why sculpt? Why do you see what you do, that I tried? Why is it limited -to forms rather than the contemporay direction of conceptual comment?
The ancient Chinese -whose monumental (that is -true) sculpture is through Confucious understood as the concept of the simple fitness of form.
it is as if we cannot -however clever we be- lie to our very selves. The fitness of form is, as the Sun is or the clouds are. Humans are as they exist- 'our' natural forms- describe immediately our modes of feeling, and, the monumental -that borders on the reduced or puristic in as much a modern sense as any recent culture has achieved- provides us with the vocabulary for describing these inner feelings.
To 'grab' at feeling, to exert some description of feeling rather overloads the natural - the poetically natural- that which closer approaches the truths which reside within us all, but which are sadly distanced through our useful Doors of Perception.
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