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and future are trapped  in the physical confines of arrested space---"time's arrow" becomes "time's box". As Judd says, "...linear history has unraveled somewhat". Actually linear history has crystallized into "blocks" of [[strikethrough]] entropy [[/strikethrough]] steel. Movement is made impossible. The Juddian progression is never simple. One must see and think in blocks, the mind must associate blocks with absolute formulae. These formulae lead to the abolition of chronology. The eyes follow a double path into areas that con only be visualized in terms of inverse order. The basic or absolute abstraction in this solid formulae is never revealed to the viewer, and its apparent completeness is a mask. It will be impossible to give any idea of such a mask, for it reveals no obvious features. At the threshold of awareness a new mental process intrudes, and overwhelms any previous comprehension. Judd cheerfully accepts the most dangerous mental dualisms, and visually retards any understanding of this domain. The eyes grow weary, heavy upon the mind, and bring to one's conciousness a valid dissappointment. The thought-process is blocked off and the "time" discloses a physical fatality. One sees a group of distances made of false "solids" that seem innocuous, and dull. The forms diminish and grow into blocks. Block after block guides the mind into a phenomena of coded lassitude. The object's implications cannot be seized. No space is "seized". The future of this object cannot be brought into focus, no date is waiting for it. Tomorrow is destroyed. An ineffectual, intolerable, and feverish arithmatic makes this object "specific". Judd has worked himself into the art habit and isolated its perpetual exfoliation into an indifferent form. The result is a powerful sense of regressus in infinitum, a paradox of exhaustion. Time becomes less than the whole. Monochrome and purple fight to function properly, but never quite make it, Everything hangs by a utilitarian group of nails. The "third dimen-sion" is removed, "space" becomes absence, and so is excluded from the abstract logic. An inaccessible regression enforces a danger-stimulus, to which no reaction is appropriate. Measurements will not help. Nothing asks to be inspected.