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have the overpowering effect of panoramas, cinemascopes, etc. A piece of sculpture should neither stand nor fall... it should be.

Nature.

I realize the existence in industry of nature and in nature of industry. There are in nature some plants that look as if they were made out of glass, just as some commercially made and industry-produced products look as if they were made by nature. Often industry, of course, imitates nature, as in the case of plastic plants that look like the real thing, plastic bugs and flies, and other such efforts.

While I am talking about all this, sculpture is always in my mind.

I have often caught myself in the act of taking a section of nature, for example, knowing that it is made up of or includes earth, water, sky, plants, trees, bugs, birds, etc., and trying to find out how the whole thing works and functions. Or a section of the city, knowing that it is made up of roads, cars, houses, subways, people, etc., and trying to find out how the whole thing works and functions. And often I take details of these sections and keep thinking in the same way. I also think of architecture--or theoretical architecture, such as that which includes the dreams of chemical architects and the theories of Buckminster Fuller, whose dome becomes organic and "works" as our bodies do. I wonder if all the contemporary efforts in kinetic or light sculpture are not ultimately trying, like similar efforts, such as contemporary