An essay that discusses Bruce Nauman's development as an artist, and the increasing complexity of his work, including video monitor pieces, performance work, and architectural interventions. The author contends that Nauman uses natural phenomena as his basic material, isolating, recontextualizing, or inverting them to create specific physical experiences. Nauman's work, she writes, addresses human nature and the the way in which things are experienced (rather than perceived or made), and thus can only be fully realized through the participation of the viewer. Nauman's art endeavors to overload the spectator emotionally, through the amplification and deprivation of sensory data acheived via manipulation of sound, space, text, and the body.