Torn Notebook - People: G. B. Glasson

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G. B. Glasson
Tallix

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On creation...
"If you have a look at the maquette (model), examine the pages and the leaves, you'll notice they have curves which are called compound curves. They go in different directions. It's very hard to take a one inch or three quarter inch sheet of aluminum, that has an inscription in it that goes the whole way through the page, thus weakening the structure itself, and bend it in several different directions to the machete. That is one of our biggest concerns going into this project, that we are able to do this with these concerns about the script weakening the material. The engineer has reviewed it. The internal engineer has reviewed it and we have asked Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen to make slight alterations on the inscriptions just so that there is some back up, structural integrity to the sheet of material where the lettering has been."

"An important aspect about taking a sculpture from a maquette size to the original intended size is that there is a distortion of illusion when one goes from a small piece up to a large piece."
-- G. B. Glasson

On their work...
"They are a great couple to work with. An incredible team. They compliment each other in their whole approach. They are very easy to work with. They know exactly what they want. For us, we have to deal with a wide variety of different sculptures, and that is what this business is about."

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