Burgin was actually coming at some of these same ideas from a different angle, trying to rethink sculpture in non-material ways. "Photopath" isn't a sculpture in the usual sense--it's an idea printed on an index card, which is then later given physical form as specific photographs installed in a particular place. Like Sol LeWitt's wall drawings (which he began in 1969), the work only exists as words/instructions, until such time as it is re-installed. And like Carl Andre's flat floor sculptures from the mid to late 1960s, which offered an alternate plane of spatial dynamics than we were used to, "Photopath" can also be thought of as a sculpture that essentially disappears, although it does have a very thin (and temporary) physical presence.
