Size/scale
Last night heard NY sculptor John Newman talk about and show his work. One of the more brilliant, honest, and down to earth artists I’ve ever met, he made an interesting disctinction between size and scale in sculpture. Size is the geometric measurement of a piece; scale is the conceptual measurement. Two pieces of the same size can have infintely different scales, in part because of how they do or don’t take us into spaces beyond their size. A great metaphor for how ideas, questions, conversations, networks, and technologies also have their own size and scale. Some are more inclusive and expansive in scale than others of similar size.
