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self-containment

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A head full of hair, a minimal mess, you plopped out, slippery like bacon fat, enduring one brief (but clinical) caress before focusing us on your pressing concern: the umbilical cord, a quaint embarrassment, threatened your seamless, flesh-smooth narrative of self-containment.
But they would be wrong to the degree that these works fail as sculpture--or Minimalist sculpture at any rate--because the odd gestalt of self-containment that they possess as individual units prohibits their joining seamlessly into a greater entity.
``Crimson Gold'' is as much a warning about the dangers of self-containment as it is an expose of a dysfunctional society.
 
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