Site-Specific Sculpture or the Mythology of Place

The author sets out her beliefs and motivations regarding her designs for specific sculptures and environments. She achieves transparency with structures of welded steel whose meshlike, see-through quality reflects her search to merge with the spirit of the place and to enhance what is already there. Seeking to use space as iridescent volume rather than solid matter, she has begun to achieve monumental see-through works that do not involve high risk, excessive cost or constant maintenance. She also discusses her method of using photocopying equipment to blow up photographs of particular sites to create backgrounds for her environmental drawings.