Puryear has likened Untitled to a Korean horsehair hat. Light shines intermittently through the tar-encrusted mesh, creating visual shifts that render the interior of the sculpture visible, but inaccessible. The artist has explained: “I’m interested in mediating between a feeling of massiveness and fragility to reach a point of extreme vulnerability. Wire mesh allows for all of this. It can appear massive and opaque, but [it] is actually a thin veil.”
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