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Procrustes in mythology was a bandit in Ancient Greece who deformed travelers to fit the frame of his own bed. The word "Procrustean" therefore implies the application of force to confine different values into a single form.

The appeal of Greece is somehow spiritual, the spartan geography, the sensation that given such clear light and such blue water we should cast away our worldly belongings and abandon ourselves naked to the elements. The quality of this light is such that it drove the inhabitants to produce artworks which actually use light as a medium, sculptural relief. 

Three-dimensional space as defined by light relates to the inexorable slide of the way we see ourselves into the realm of the mathematical potential of machines.
The construction of form within the numerical sphere is restricted to the shortest path between two points and thus a curve, the basic building block of form in nature, becomes a series of straight lines.
antiprocrustian
Procrustes in mythology was a bandit in Ancient Greece who deformed travelers to fit the frame of his own bed. The word "Procrustean" therefore implies the application of force to confine different values into a single form.

The appeal of Greece is somehow spiritual, the spartan geography, the sensation that given such clear light and such blue water we should cast away our worldly belongings and abandon ourselves naked to the elements. The quality of this light is such that it drove the inhabitants to produce artworks which actually use light as a medium, sculptural relief. 

Three-dimensional space as defined by light relates to the inexorable slide of the way we see ourselves into the realm of the mathematical potential of machines.
The construction of form within the numerical sphere is restricted to the shortest path between two points and thus a curve, the basic building block of form in nature, becomes a series of straight lines.
antiprocrustian

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antiprocrustean Sculpture

Toby Short

Greece

Sculpture, Cardboard

Size: 49.2 W x 53.9 H x 9.4 D in

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$9,120

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Procrustes in mythology was a bandit in Ancient Greece who deformed travelers to fit the frame of his own bed. The word "Procrustean" therefore implies the application of force to confine different values into a single form. The appeal of Greece is somehow spiritual, the spartan geography, the sens...

Year Created:

2008

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Method:

Sculpture, Cardboard

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

49.2 W x 53.9 H x 9.4 D in

Ready to Hang:

Yes

Mounting:

Wall-Mounted

Frame:

Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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Ships in a Crate

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No

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Greece.

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Shipments from Greece may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.

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my name is Toby Short, I undertake commissioned public art, design furniture and create figurative sculptures. I am interested in the space in-between things. In that which defies our immediate perception. My work concerns the discovery of something integral to us all but which is hard to grasp. I am particularly fascinated in the way we view the world via the machines we have created, In the way that computers portray life. The development of this idea I call ‘fractal mentality’. ‘fractal mentality’ can be seen in some sculptures below.

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