Digital technology has the power to change both what is conceived and what is then chosen to be made in untold ways. What is unarguable is that the infinite variety of sophisticated shapes which may be produced for manufacture demands that designers look more closely at sculpture. Kapoor's reniform fibreglass sculpture is remarkably like recent designs for hand-held objects such as cameras. His ideal is for a work to appear to be there, and not made. Products seem not to attain the heights because they must do things.
Function is a hard taskmaster.
A push-button or a vent, a knob or a handle on an otherwise pure form is enough to drive out the sublime. But the way products work is changing. Soon there will be no reason why everyday objects cannot have the gravitational attraction of a Kapoor.