Sculptor Phyllida Barlow talks about the relationship between a human and an object. She sees sculpture in this way, as simple as “crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you”— that these experiences are both everday occurances and also are sculptural experiences. And when those experiences happen, our emotional and psychological assessments happen in a flash.

“I think the relationship of a warm blooded creature vs an object that is still and silent – which is essentially what I think sculpture is – for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you, is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh and blood object is up against the thing that isn't. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happen in a in a flash. To me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you – so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that's what I think we do when we're interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it, and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. A state of affairs that we're assessing (View Highlight)”