We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything. - Carl Andre

Talking about the particles, I know I don't have any special theory of particles. It's just the way it came out and that's the way I want to do it. Also, there are advantages to particles: you can't break them; they don't break apart. They don’t have any rigid connections; there are no rigid connections to break. The particles are always shifting around a little bit and you have to kick them back into shape. It's like tuning a piano every once in a while. I like the idea of something being permanent by being non-rigid, being absolutely non-rigid but not having a rigid form that can be broken. But a theory of particles, I don’t know. Maybe late one night after a few drinks I explained to Lucy Lippard a theory of particles. I'm sure I didn't remember the next day.

Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.

PROPOSAL FOR AN
EXPLOSION -
An appropriate contractor is
retained to place and fuse
an explosive charge sufficient
to produce a crater 12 inches
deep and 144 inches diameter.
The charge is detonated by the sculptor, Carl Andre
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