But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.