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A 21' x 12' x 1/2" thin, white concrete plane is intersected by a stand of twenty-four 12' x 2" rusting steel tubes, penetrating it 12' from the forward end and supporting it there at 2' above the ground. This fragile flat, brittle white plane, having been produced by screeding marble-filled concrete into light expanded steel, is supported on seven bent rebar trusses that extend its full length, each being 21' long by 18" deep. The intersecting barrier of steel tubes leans one foot to the rear and to the right. Responding to that shift the concrete plane, which would otherwise have been rectangular, becomes a parallelogram, forcing the supporting trusses to follow suite, adjusting appropriately in turn. Being supported at the forward ends of each of the seven trusses at 18" high and then at 2' by the tubes 12' further on, the white plane continues rising upward as it passes through that barrier, cantilevering 9' beyond, presenting there, for a moment, another remote and vacant place.