It may transpire that unless I find the appropriate context in which to place a finished object, it will not "convulse", its numinosity will remain dormant. Conventional gallery design since the middle of the century would indicate that the aesthetic qualities of an art object are supposedly savored best in an antiseptic interior and under electric lamplight. But an object such as I propose to manufacture, and which I do not think of simply as "art", might require a specific site, a specific hour of day or night, specific support "props", weather conditions, and so on before "its soul, its whatness, leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance" [8] and it becomes numinous."

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8. James Joyce, describing the "epiphany" of an object.