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The Monthly Planet - March 1980

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VOL 9

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NO. 3

S¢rra ~culP-_tu_re__ JANFT BLAIR

us a chaZZenge.

could so powerfully distort t-,,.e way I perceive volume,

It's a complex problem in a imple shape. His untitled culpture has presence. It i direct and unavoidable due to its site and massive forms. Although I understand some of the criticism about this

ristances, size, sound and my own situation. Before entering, I feel ?arr>iers, but once inside I GJ11 aware of' the air and the sky. AZZ my senses are affected, not jut mental and

sculpture, I believe it is uccessful. The piece makes me az.Jare oJ size relationships. Next to heavy, tilted steel walls I eel ~ragiZe, weightZe s. I am surrounded by paradoxes: that thee our rectangZev

isuo.Z, ut t~e physical as eZZ, heightened by the sense o -P' enc Zosure and gravity. I now Zook at the sky in a new ay, and feel its opennes and the contrasting shelter o the waZZs. to page 3

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ONE LONE DUCK ENVIRONAENTAL ART PLAN T POLL: SERRA EXTINCTION AND ETHICS TRITE THOUGHTS FROM THE MOON DIARY OF A MAD COORDINATOR Cl?APONCLAMPONCRAMPONS SER A SCULPTURE VITUPERATION ENGINEER

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STAN HOLMES Richard Svenson is a man of means.

He works for Wes-

tern Washington University as a steam engineer.

And

du~ing his hours of guiding the heating and cooling system for the entire campus, Svenson thought up a very intelligent, energy efficient program to recycle solid wastes and use that energy to heat the college campus. Svenson's idea is toutilize all burnable waste collected on campus, throw it into a roaring hot boiler which would generate e ou h to page 5


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