Opus 266a Cynthia

"Opus 259 and Opus 291 are entirely linear and insistently two-dimensional, but like Opus 268 (Pl.245) and many of the Minneapolis works they are essentially two-sided reliefs. What distinguishes them from their predecessors is a linearity so exclusive that the only solid form is in the supporting bases. They are like a draughtsman's blueprints meticulously drawn in a single plane of space, and like such plans they are based on a strict syntax of geometry. Templates of the circle, the square and the rectangle could have been used in their drawings of the period; but in the sculpture no templates were needed because the metal had already been shaped by the rigours of industrial purpose. Hardly a part of them is other than a fine-cut section of an extruded steel pipe, yet their variety, in assemblage, is astonishing". (J Gleeson, op.cit. p. 339)