the pieces are free standing
The pieces are free standing.
The bases range in size from 8x8x8 inches to 5x12x3 inches.
The bases anchor the other elements, aluminum poles and galvanized wire, which project upward.
Aluminum poles, ranging from 4 to 5 feet tall with their own flat square bases of 3/16-inch aluminum plate from 4 to 5 inches square.
Each pole holds in position a series of 16 gauge wire lines that run from the concrete base, looping through drilled holes on the corners of the aluminum plate and up, usually past eye level.
Attached to these wires are folded tabs of painted canvas in various colors.
Each folded tab is set the direction that corresponds to the position of the wire relative to the pole.
The effect is of a book being open; the painted part is always on the outside, while the insides are unpainted.
Interspersed between these canvas tabs are tiny balls made out of colored pipe cleaners.
The colors of the pipe cleaners have a specific but non-symbolic relation to the colors on the canvas tabs.
There are often two or three wires with canvas tabs and pipe cleaner balls attached to one aluminum plate.
The vertical lines create a sense of a linear volume, and within each line is echoed another volume depicted by the open canvas tabs.
In several pieces, the sides of the base have been encased with 3/4-inch pine, painted glossy white.
On two of the pieces with the painted wood box covers, there is a 2x4 that runs up from the uncovered concrete surface about 5 feet. In each case this 2x4 is interrupted by a cut, which is “mended” by the “left-over” top of the pine box, creating a kind of planar pause, in the linear movement of the 2x4.
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