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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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reading, thinking and making connections
Does here "reading, thinking and making connections" mean "reading (finding) natural patterns, thinking about them, and making connections among them"?
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The sculptor Richard Deacon, who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood, makes large abstract sculptures which demonstrate a kinship with nature though an intuitive understanding of what form is capable of but are inspired by a poetic synthesis of conceptual ideas. These ideas, often intellectually conceived through reading, thinking and making connections, translate into abstract forms which have evolved in the inner mind and are realised as solid sculptures which seem to be the embodiment of thought in action, nebulous templates of the imagination, limited only by the constraints imposed by the physical forces in external reality.
Context:
The sculptor Richard Deacon, who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood, makes large abstract sculptures which demonstrate a kinship with nature though an intuitive understanding of what form is capable of but are inspired by a poetic synthesis of conceptual ideas. These ideas, often intellectually conceived through reading, thinking and making connections, translate into abstract forms which have evolved in the inner mind and are realised as solid sculptures which seem to be the embodiment of thought in action, nebulous templates of the imagination, limited only by the constraints imposed by the physical forces in external reality.
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red apple Does here "reading, thinking and making connections" mean "reading (finding) natural patterns, thinking about them, and making connections among them"? I doubt it's that complicated. It seems to me that "reading" is simply reading books, "thinking" is thinking about just about anything, possibly about what is read in these books, possibly about other ideas, and "making connections" is coming to some conclusions about the relationships one sees between the various ideas that come up during the reading and thinking.
- red apple Does here "reading, thinking and making connections" mean "reading (finding) natural patterns, thinking about them, and making connections among them"?
- I doubt it's that complicated.
- It seems to me that "reading" is simply reading books, "thinking" is thinking about just about anything, possibly about what is read in these books, possibly about other ideas, and "making connections" is coming to some conclusions about the relationships one sees between the various ideas that come up during the reading and thinking.
- CJ
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red appleDoesI doubt it's that complicated. It seems to me that "reading" is simply reading books, "thinking" is thinking about just about anything, possibly about what is read in these books, possiblyhere"reading, thinking and making connections" mean "reading (finding) natural patterns, thinking about them, and making connections among them"?
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red appleThe sculptor Richard Deacon, who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood, makes large abstract sculptures which demonstrate a kinship with nature though an intuitive understanding of what form is capable of but are inspired by a poetic synthesis of conceptual i
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AnonymousIs a comma needed after 'fabricator' in the above text?Heavens, no! That would be a bad idea. Then you would have
Richard Deacon [who works as a 'fabricator'] with materials which ...
i.e.,
Richard Deacon with materials which ...
The idea "works with materials" would be cut in half by a comma there.
Anonym
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Thank you, CJ, for clarification.
Is the clause "who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood" a non-defining relative clause?
Is the clause "who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood" a non-defining relative clause?
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AnonymousThank you, CJ, for clarification. Is the clause "who works as a ‘fabricator’ with materials which include heavy galvanised steel, aluminium, transparent polycarbonate and curvaceous laminated wood" a non-defining relative clause?Yup! It can't be anything else!
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