Sublime
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James Turrell
Michael Dean • 1 card
For of all the shapes in which that immense illusion called materialism can terrify the soul, perhaps the most oppressive are big buildings.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
I used to love those Barbara Hepworth sculptures made of stone with a hole pierced through. In fact, it is stone shaped round a hole. It is the hole that matters. Surrounded by stone, the hole becomes visible.
Jeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
Visibility is a trap:
Bentham’s Panopticon is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends
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