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In 1963, when Judd [[strikethrough]] had an [[/strikethrough]] exhibited at the Green Gallery of his plywood and aluminum structures. They disclosed an awareness of physical "mass" in the form of regular intervals of bulk. The intrinsic virtue of "primary matter" was also very much in evidence.  Each work offered a different solution for the confinement of space. One wooden box (19 1/2" x 45" x 30 1/2") for example, contained a series of recessed slats, exposed only by a slight concave valley on top of the box. This valley took up only about 20% of the top surface. The slats were ] more closely spaced at one end than the other; and as a result, space seemed squeezed out. Inertia appeared to be subdivided into remote areas of force. In another work, a black pipe-like axis was polarized between two massive plywood squares (4'x4', yet no rotation seemed possible because the black pipe was flanked by six polarizing square wooded beams that were bolted into the wooden squares. This non-rotational aspect