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some sculpture they would be readying themselves for the
further degree of visualization that is carving and writing and
square enclosures. Sculpture, now as ever, is the frontier
between the spaces of sight and sound. For sculpture is not
enclosed space. It modulates space, as does sound. And
architecture, too, has this mysterious dimension of the frontier
between two worlds of space. Le Corbusier argues that it is
best felt at night. It is only partly in the visual mode.
E. S. Carpenter’s book Eskimo is concerned with the space
concepts of the Eskimo, revealing his quite “irrational” or non-
visual attitude to spatial forms and orientations:
I know of no example of an Aivilik describing space
primarily in visual terms. They don’t regard space as
static, and therefore measurable; hence they have no