This installation is a three-dimensional BUILT DRAWING. Inserting the drawing into a volumetrically bounded exterior space, it occupies the courtyard of mid-century modernist building completed in 1965 by Killingsworth, Brady & Associates. Here the object has left the wall and engaged fully the space through is figurative autonomy determined by connected extensions. Suspended in the courtyard by a network of transparent tensile cables, the structural web is derived from the construction lines of the object tethered to the nodal regularity of the architectural context. These connections merge the geometries of the building with the geometries of the BUILT DRAWING synthetically.

Blending representation and actuality, BUILT DRAWING hybridizes the familiar with the strange, merging the ordered with the seemingly erratic. Based in the optical perception of our bodies, it takes iconic and familiar Platonic geometries and grafts them together in space. Webbed and connected, the aluminum lines create the layered drawing of two interconnected forms. The continuity of line is fractured and shifted in depth, visually collapsing and assembling for two discrete and individuated moments within the larger connective cloud of the composition. The primary figural aluminum lines are extended through the delicate construction lines of the tensile supports. The composition is self-resolving as the constraints (internal and external) establish the inclusionary decisions as to what remains. The drawing is a connection of optical to spatial conditions. A pyramid from one vantage, a cube from another, the perception of depth, projected into space is confronted with the realities of the un-flattened and actual. The drawing is a myth as it becomes real.

The project was constructed of aluminum tubing with three-dimensional resin printed nodes. The weight of the object, though larger than a car or small pavilion is less than 7 pounds. Its delicate presence allows for a reflective ephemerality in the space.