Sculpture

by Stephen Ratcliffe

Using the linguistic sculptor's tools of image, juxtaposition, repetition, fragment, melody, rhythm, and the word, Stephen Ratcliffe builds, unbuilds, and rebuilds a poetic world in Sculpture where the physical and the conceptual are resituated, sometimes carefully and sometimes recklessly, at various radii around a center of emotion on the verge of becoming itself.
In its four evenly measured sections, the meanings of Sculpture accumulate like the verdigris of weather on sculptural work, leaving the work itself altered by the very matter of which it is made.

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First published January 1, 1996