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369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough

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Goudy's Catinary Arch

Gouty discovered the power of the catinary arch, which is a chain form with gravity pulling it down. He uses that as a kind of light motif for the last 20, 30 years of his creative life. And works on a model which is four and a half meters high, and all these little chains with little bags, shotgun pellets, representing the different stresses,. et cetera.

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