“The active physical and perceptual involvement that Cylinder Stacks and Square Stack demand is key to Howe’s project as a whole. His sculptures are meant to be looked through and even around rather than simply at. They are filters for our vision, not stopping points, and address sight as a conscious act rather than functioning as a steppingstone to separate or isolated metaphors or meanings. By prompting the viewer to consider the visual as itself a component of time and language, they transcend the confines of independent ‘subject matter’ while remaining open to concerns shared with modernist architecture and design, phenomenology, and perceptual psychology—as well as with other art. Coolly geometrical, they are, nonetheless, addressed to human bodies and real-world experiences.”

Excerpt from Seth Howe: At the Still Point of the Turning World by Michael Wilson

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