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Conditional art [Conditional art] requires the process to begin with an intimate, hands-on reading of the site. This means sitting, watching, and walking through the site, the surrounding areas (where you will enter from and exit to), the city at large or the countryside... A quiet distillation of all this – while directly experiencing the site – determines all the facets of the "sculptural response". Robert Irwin, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art If removed from the place for which it was intendedTo absorb it or build your own