UNCERTAIN EMBRACE, 1993


Uncertain Embrace was one of the first structures where heavy steel skin gave way to semi-transparent walls that offered greater shelter but more light. The structure was built in sections with a simple steel frame structure and covered in delicate sized drafting paper. Designed with curved orange peel like segments, wall became ceiling. The sized paper over the skeleton frame formed a single chamber with a membrane that was perhaps oppressively fragile.

The title referred both to the ease in which the sheltering walls might be ruptured and to the ambivalent nature of any kind of containment.


Uncertain Embrace II, 1996
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Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
tracing paper, steel

Uncertain Embrace II, 1993
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McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
tracing paper, steel

 Uncertain Embrace

Uncertain Embrace