This document discusses various artistic concepts and techniques related to being apart or together, including:
1) Artists who explore themes of individual solitude within crowded places like George Segal and ways that artists like Antony Gormley place figures in everyday environments.
2) Techniques like layering, collaging, assemblage and double exposures that bring different media, materials, images or objects together to create new meanings or illusions.
3) How some artists, through mark making, sculpture, photography or other means imagine fictional worlds, abstract patterns, or capture movement, time, memory or the inner workings of objects.