For me, all of his sculptures, including the room - size installations,
operate on a human scale.
Not exact matches
But as they
operate at present, both the free market and the state fail miserably in maintaining community
on a
human scale and with a
human face.
They
operate, like the forged sculptures downstairs,
on a
human scale, and their surfaces, although textured, do not approach the extraordinary, almost threatening, impasto Serra has sometimes favored.
But
on larger
scales (both in space and time) the earth is a planet of our local star; the sun is our only source of (purely radiative) energy; we have an atmosphere which clearly
operates to reduce diurnal variations in temperature (which
on black body basis would otherwise be huge,
on human scale) and the radiative budget must always be exactly in balance.