Detail from Antony Gormley's OPEN CLASP, 2014
Music and architecture - one stable and inhabitable, the other mobile and inhabiting the listener - both provide temporal structures experienceable in time. I want to engage the openness of music and the stability of architecture, the interpenetrations of rhythm, volume, timbre and pitch to work directly on the embodied mind of anyone who encounters these Open Blockworks and encourage them to move around the sculpture’s stillness.
Antony Gormley OPEN CLASP, 2014
Mass and space, light and dark, line and volume are all at play. The work is a score to be read by the body.
Antony Gormley OPEN CLASP, 2014
The challenge is to encourage a re-habitation of spacetime, to engage the body in a proprioceptive re-birthing of its own mature being. These sculptures are not idealisations but instruments against which life can register itself.
- Antony Gormley, April 2019
Phillips would like to thank Antony Gormley for his contribution to this essay.