Lucas Samaras' boxes are notoriously decorative and devious...they have a darkness to them that I can't explain, the pins, needles, nails and razors create this sense of tension in a world of beauty and decoration. The materials that he uses to achieve this decorative quality are not "high" materials, like gold or jewels...they are plastic and superficial, common and ordinary - pebbles, pencils and yarn...However, in the context of multiples, next to one another, they make a luxurious and powerful statement...
The context is very attractive and complex, it is personally interesting to me...the way you have to deal with the interior verses the exterior...how these areas are vi sable and then hidden...how they reference each other and help define each other, separate yet together...Lucas Samaras is effective in describing, visually, these surfaces and competing areas...handled obsessively, the boxes say more that we know and care to admit...
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