The name of this latest series of table sculptures, Cascades, alerts us to the continuation of this interplay of the physical and the imaginal, for though they are some of the most materially imposing of all the hundreds of table works Caro has made over the past 25 years, they also project illusions of motion - falling, spilling, cascading - qualities of purely visual (i.e., not actual) dynamic movement. In recent years, however, another dimension has developed in Caro's work. It has come to be animated by certain psychological qualities; it's become associative, historically retrospective, incipiently
romantic, and poetic. In these table works, the formalized material is animated not only by illusions of physical activity, but also by something intangible, an intimation of expressive human consciousness.
(exerpt from Ken Johnson's catalogue essay)
