Land
1979 Concrete and steel.
A half-inch of common concrete of gray Portland cement and sand is trawled into a 12’ x 12’ plane of expanded steel supported on an egg-crate structural plane of 1 1/2” x 1/16” slotted flat steel assembled on a 6” grid pattern. The interlocking flat steel elements are bound at all intersections with twisted stainless steel wires. Four stainless steel cables with heat treated stainless steel cores, 12’ long and 1” diameter, penetrate this 12’ x 12’ plane of concrete one foot from each corner. These lengths of cable are bisected by and fastened to the concrete and steel plane as they pass through it. It is as though, were the cables stretched out fully, this piece would all fit into a 12’ cube bisected by the concrete plane. However, here each of the cables bend unevenly underneath the slab supporting it obliquely on both axises, while the cables above, although leaning off vertical, remain perpendicular to the slab.
A gray concrete plane, an industrial cast-off fragment, that remains vacant and still.
A gray concrete plane, an industrial cast-off fragment, that remains vacant and still.