The artist has written, about some of his sculpture: “The minimalists made a fetish of non-pedestal ‘objects’ that rested directly on the floor or ‘reliefs’ mounted to the wall. Robert Morris asked ‘Why not put the work outside and further change the terms?’ - Recently I've been wondering how the terms would change if non-pedestal work was transplanted from the gallery to the domestic spaces of our homes.”

There is an extensive discussion of the artist's work, "Crash", at "Grand Arts":.

This is an excerpt from a "piece published by MoMA PS1":: "New York-based artist John Powers constructs sculptures with a single repeated module: wooden blocks cut to various sizes in the strict proportion of one by two by three. Key (2000) is constructed in accordance with basic principles: three blocks are balanced on point and all blocks meet at right angles. In Powers' work, the volume of blocks articulate, but never subvert, a compositional whole. In Untitled (2002), the artist works with Styrofoam blocks to address color and its absence."