59-22 Madison Street, May 3 - 14, 2024, in a modest exquisite renovation by Glickman Schlesinger Architects in Ridgewood Queens "Consider the concept of infinity and the body, and its’ relationship to space.” Jordan Strom
       
     
HOLE is ‘a kinetic volume in space’ in the words of american theorist Suzanne Langer. it does not move. It activates space, by doing nothing, but hang from the ceiling, by reflective thread. In her book Feeling and Form (Scribner, 1953) Langer
       
     
‘ Sculpture is literally the image of kinetic volume in space. That is why I say it is a powerful abstraction. It seems to me that just because we do not identify the space which centers in a statue with our own environment, the created world remain
       
     
59-22 Madison Street, May 3 - 14, 2024, in a modest exquisite renovation by Glickman Schlesinger Architects in Ridgewood Queens "Consider the concept of infinity and the body, and its’ relationship to space.” Jordan Strom
       
     
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59-22 Madison Street, May 3 - 14, 2024, in a modest exquisite renovation by Glickman Schlesinger Architects in Ridgewood Queens

"Consider the concept of infinity and the body, and its’ relationship to space.” Jordan Strom

HOLE is ‘a kinetic volume in space’ in the words of american theorist Suzanne Langer. it does not move. It activates space, by doing nothing, but hang from the ceiling, by reflective thread. In her book Feeling and Form (Scribner, 1953) Langer
       
     
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HOLE is ‘a kinetic volume in space’ in the words of american theorist Suzanne Langer. it does not move. It activates space, by doing nothing, but hang from the ceiling, by reflective thread. In her book Feeling and Form (Scribner, 1953) Langer writes, “The tangible form has a compliment of empty space that it absolutely commands, that is given with it and only with it, and is, in fact, part of the sculptural volumes. The void enfolds it, and the enfolding space has a vital form as a continuation of the figure.“ p. 88

steam-bent ash & reflective thread, 2005, 47 inches (119 cm) in diameter, depth varies

‘ Sculpture is literally the image of kinetic volume in space. That is why I say it is a powerful abstraction. It seems to me that just because we do not identify the space which centers in a statue with our own environment, the created world remain
       
     
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‘Sculpture is literally the image of kinetic volume in space. That is why I say it is a powerful abstraction. It seems to me that just because we do not identify the space which centers in a statue with our own environment, the created world remains objective, and can thus become an image of our own surrounding space.’ -Suzanne Langer, Feeling and Form, (chapter 6: The Modes of Virtual Space) p. 92

ed. 8 (five available), collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia