I really like the way you write about your personal response to this exhibition! In trawling the web for articles about Anish Kapoor’s work I often find the same syndicated write-up over and over, and unfortunately mostly it hesitates to make a stance on its subject. You speak about “the mechanical, soulless way in which [the work] is created”. Well, I wished there was more written about the anything-but- soulless process of how these works come into being. I work for Aerotrope, who are engineers for Anish Kapoor and have helped make Svayambh (‘the train), Shooting…(‘the cannon’) and Hive at the RA. Trying to make these things work is an exciting and emotionally charged time for our engineers, who are often working right on the limit of what is possible. The arch of interaction that is drawn from the artist’s vision to the reality of physics and materials available is patterned by the sensitivity of individuals towards this, the unknown, which the artist strives to achieve. Ultimately the artist’s vision is bound or, if you like, tempted down to earth by material constraints and the care and attention of a team of very different disciplines- designers, engineers, fabricators. The process is quite beautiful in that it draws very different people close together to make something new that serves only the purpose of art. Wished more articles were written about this hidden process, because it would certainly inform the finished piece, and perhaps give it more ’soul’.

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