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As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

— George Rickey Selden Rodman (1957)

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Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance of itself; it merely makes movement evident. Therefore, the simplest, most customary, most unobtrusive forms suffice.

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