Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each medium to what it adds to a sculptural work.
- Light
- Sound
- Movement
- Living material
- Duration, and reach beyond the sightline
- Volume without mass; the room itself changes
- Growth and change as content
- Real time and mechanical presence
Hints
- Each addition brings a capacity the static object lacks.
- The medium that reaches beyond what can be seen is sound.
Show the answer
- Light → Volume without mass; the room itself changes
- Sound → Duration, and reach beyond the sightline
- Movement → Real time and mechanical presence
- Living material → Growth and change as content
Why
Three of the four add time in some form, which is the common thread: the static object is complete at a moment and each of these makes the work something that happens rather than something that is.
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