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So every craftsman and workmaster / that laboureth night and day,
he who maketh graven seals / and by his continual diligence varieth the figure:
he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture
and by his watching shall finish the work..
How is he to receive wisdom?
Taken from The Book of Sirach chapter 38, verse 27 (180 B.C.)
Sometimes I feel as if I were a bridge.
…an artery…
through which many things…
…pass
It’s involuntary, a never-ending stream.
To work with your hands is to follow a thought
It is not an abstract concept
I have to do things that…
…“that have a point”.
This is an iron plate
It’s 2 metres and 25 centimetres tall
by 2 metres wide.
It is surrounded by
an 8 centimetres wide square-section tube
It weighs…
…over 100 kilos.
The supporting base is the same weight
I used 9 coils of wire
each weighing 35 kg.
making a total of almost…
…3 km of iron wire.
4 mm annealed iron wire
The plate is drilled with 530 holes
that pick out an image
the image of a rib cage.
When you see it…
…the effect is the complete opposite…
…of the actual weight of its components… because…
…it is free-flowing, Practically a…
…horizontal waterfall.
This is one of the reasons I have always used this iron wire
I use it to make drawings.
It’s a…
…it’s as if it were a three-dimensional drawing
This is… it’s graphite
the mark left by graphite.
For me, it has exactly this…
this value, this function:
it leaves marks in space.
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