Focus on Disc Installation and explain the Critical acclaim.
“Shown correctly, Irwin’s discs are otherworldly. They seem to float ambiguously. It is the disc seeming to dematerialize or the shadows taking on volume? There is an eerie, fluid sense of density, object and shadow playing in and out of co presence. White becoming color becoming shadow of white. Self possession divulging itself.” –Lawrence Weschler commenting on Irwin’s discs“Irwin emphasizes verbally that what he requires of the spectator is for him literally to ‘enact the process of the work’s conception’...There were of course serious problems arising out of the inevitable discrepancy between the artist’s stated demands and the actual uniformed confrontation with the works, which were, for one thing, exceedingly elegant and often ravishing beautiful; one was not necessarily inclined, at least consciously, to respond as searchingly as hoped.” –Jane Livingston’s essay on Irwin’s traveling exhibit of discs 1969
Lawrence Weschler