Richard Nonas: "(PARENTHESIS); (corner to corner, in place)"

«A clogged and formal place. A tight urban world wrapped in history, cut by long lines of woods and stones. Lines that mark both the strong emotional edge of a ceremonial place and also the raw edge and downward slope of its complex meaning -- its dirt-floor shift-and-slide back to old political ground, its ongoing tension and ancient skew. For sculpture is that spacial gap-between, that pass between moutain peaks. Sculpture is that implied absence, that almost-clarity about not-quiet-confusion. Sculpture is that dissonance. The dissonance, I mean, of intersecting and conflicting chunks of human meaning cut into an historicized world. The dissonance, that is to say, of art."