Field: clay figures filling a room

"From the beginning I was trying to make something as direct as possible with clay: the earth. The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. I gave these instructions to the makers: Take a hand-size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quickly as possible. Place it at arm's length in front of you and give it eyes." -- Anthony Gormley

• 1992

• Gormley, Antony (English sculptor and painter, born 1950)

• InSITE92

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 129)

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

clay

• InSITE92

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Crowds
• Eyes (motifs)
• Population
• Repetition (Aesthetics)

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715410

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-27