Eric Fredericksen, former Stranger staffer, is a man who loves Highway 99, longs to live on Sesame Street, and who once, in the year 1999, laid out a list of punishable offenses, put on a suit, and posed for the photo you see of him here, with the warning "DON'T YOU DO IT!"

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In short, he is worth clicking for.

And what did we discuss when we sat down earlier this week and turned on the recorder? Why, what else could we talk about this week? Sculpture. Western Bridge, the exhibition space where Fredericksen is now director, has a new show, called Kit Bashing. We agreed the show has at least two bona-fide sculptures in it: Steven Brekelmans's Kit Bashing, a drum set made of balsa wood and tissue paper, and the second is Ryan Gander's Phantom of Appropriation, which would spell out the words of the title in various fonts from other neon artworks, except most of the neon letters have been smashed to bits on the floor. (The show also has works by Gretchen Bennett—these sticker creations are incredible, almost entirely indescribable, and were commissioned by the Trues, so are brand new—Ben Rubin, Steve Roden, and Carsten Höller.) Beyond that, we veered from Trisha Donnelly's mental sculpture of a solar eclipse to Frank Stella's inability to get his architecture career off the ground to clicheacute;s about rivers versus rocks. Rocks win.

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Installation view at Western Bridge of Ryan Gander's A Phantom of Appropriation (2006), photograph by Mark Woods

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Detail from an installation view at Western Bridge of Ryan Gander's A Phantom of Appropriation (2006), photograph by Mark Woods

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Installation view at Western Bridge of Steven Brekelmans's Kit Bashing (2006), photograph by Mark Woods


Next week on In/Visible: Anything, anything but sculpture.