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  C O N S P I R E

  “When people encounter my sculptures,” says Ragen Moss, “frequently the first question I get asked is: ‘How did you make this?’” More than with almost any other artistic medium, sculptures are commonly thought to be reducible to lists of technical details of their fabrication, or the affordances and symbolisms of their raw materials. This is learned behavior. At least since the heyday of Minimalism, Western artists and critics have tried to disabuse their audiences of the idea that abstract sculptures might hold any meaning beyond their own shape and fabrication. Though the work may formally resonate with a Minimalist tradition,…

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  Horizon Figures

  There are two actions that drive the works: (1) the action of carving something away until it is completely hollowed, and (2) the action of making structure out of translucency. These are two distinct actions – to make sculpture arise from hollowness and, separately, to derive sculpture from translucency. Keeping in mind these two features – hollowness and translucency – provides a succinct way to think about each work, especially in the solid and opaque context of sculpture’s history. ***Additional notes: • Contour. The decision to make sculpture without a center – without bulk, without solid mass, without allowing a…