| Tactility | Touch sensations, both inward and outward.
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| Sunken relief | Sculpture made by carving grooves of various depths into the surface planes of the sculptural material, the surface plane remaining perceptually distinct.
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| Low relief | Sculpture with a background plane from which the projections are relatively small.
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| High relief | Sculpture with a background plane from which the projections are relatively large.
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| Sculpture in the round | Sculpture freed from any background plane.
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| Objective correlative | An image that is similar to a subjective awareness.
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| Modeling | The technique of building up a sculpture piece by piece with some plastic or malleable material. See assemblage.
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| Technology | A discipline that applies for practical purposes the theoretical knowledge produced by the sciences.
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| Earth sculpture | Sculpture that makes the earth the medium, site, and subject matter.
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