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Robert Smithson

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In one "untitled" work, one sees five galvanized iron verticals sprayed a blue contrapuntal to one brass horizontal. The brass horizontal is an "extruded" square tube with visable open ends, while the iron verticals are made of folded "star-spangled" sheet with invisable open ends. The entire work appears to be draining emptiness.

In a second "untitled" work, one sees four galvanized iron cubes contrapuntal to one aluminum horizontal. Judd has made four "holes" disappear by surrounding them with four surfaces each, but only one surface remains intact on each cube, and that is on the two inner cubes. The two outer cubes have both full side-surfaces and full front- surfaces, while two inner cubes have full front-surfaces but not the full sides. This in turn results in three gaps, and they serve as missing edges. Each missing edge is sandwiched by to "Pittsburg seams". Six seams make three gaps, but eight seams make three gaps plus two full sides, not to mention the aluminum tube which adds four hidden corners to the three gaps.

In a third "untitled" work, one sees five painted aluminum angles contrapuntal to one aluminum horizontal. The angles form four different gaps that exist between the regular intervals of the angles. Ups and downs come to an almost perfect equilibrium.

Because Judd "realized" the factual to such an extent, his works are [[illegible]].