March 16, 2009
“When I first started to work, in order to proceed, I wrote down a verb list, just to enact certain processes, not to think about sculpture, but to think about how would I involve myself in relation to matter, in a way that would enable me to concentrate on the activity of making something. So I wrote down a simple verb list: To cut, To fold, To curve, To bend, To prop, whatever. And then I started enacting those verbs in relation to given materials, whether it was a piece of rubber, a piece of lead. And Phil Glass, a composer, and myself, would work together and take a given verb for a day, and with certain materials, would go through the processes of trying to form whatever we form.”
Richard Serra, Sculptor
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