- Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:27 pm
#102127
Hi sofisofi,
While the statement in Answer E may be factually true, there is no support in the passage to suggest that this "principle was used by Gray in her work" as the question specifies.
If anything, there are several indications that Gray doesn't use the "superficial visual aspects" to reveal the structural components, but uses those components even when they are not apparent from a superficial visual inspection.
Here are a few relevant lines from the passage.
"Though her attention shifted from smaller objects to the very large, she always focused on details, even details that were forever hidden" (lines 5-7).
"This tension between aesthetic demands and structural requirements, which invests Gray's work in lacquer with an architectural quality, is critical but not always apparent" (lines 20-23).
"But in architecture we discover the hidden layers, in fact we inhabit them" (lines 47-49).
What this line is getting at is that the hidden layers are not discovered by a simple superficial visual inspection but by close, careful examination such as in the examples of storage cabinets in the recesses of the staircase, desks that are also cabinets, etc. (lines 49-50).