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Linear “Davy’s pieces invite touch and
participation both perceptually and physically. Davy implies a lot of
physical participation when he does long walkways and logs. One
immediately thinks kinesthetically what it would be like to get up
there and try to balance and walk along those walkways. Perceptual
participation, the third element in a lot of his current work, involves
a physical delineation on the floor but without real substance. He’s
marked an outline that would be a kind of isometric projection. If you
fold it over, which one can’t literally do, you begin to fold and
transfer outlines of the steel form to the plane of the floor. Certain
patterns emerge; it’s very simply marked out. The minute you look at
the lines, you start trying to go through the geometry of making the
projection that he’s given us. It’s an interesting, logical puzzle set
against the completely illogical and humdrum log stuck on top of this
careful piece of geometry. It has one thing in common with a kind of
deadpan, dry wit that’s part of some of the art in Southern
California.”
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