This is a photo of the model of I made in preparation for my Senior Thesis Exhibit installation sculpture piece as well as part of the final piece in the background (why is there not an installation section in the sculpture category here?).

Each person in our particular Thesis class was asked to build their portfolio/thesis work around a question. Mine was "When does the confluence of inner and outer space cause a person to form a narrative?"

I decided to produce one large installation sculpture piece (a labyrinth) for my thesis exhibit. The final piece included 3 consecutive rooms, with the sculpture proper acting as the middle room or passageway between the other two. The first room included a projector which projected an image of an analogue clock onto a white wall. The second was the labyrinth itself. The third was a room with a stage and a pedestal on which the actual clock sat and where I performed my thesis (which was written as a play).

The labyrinth itself was a passageway built out of copper tubing and tightly-stretched, unbleached muslin. From the projection room the viewer was able to see the clock on the pedestal through a narrow slit down the middle of the labyrinth. As the viewer passed through the labyrinth the passage doubled back on itself, offering repeated glimpses through the slit, and the walls became narrower and narrower, curving inwards to squeeze the viewer. The muslin had a very translucent quality which, combined with the springy-ness from being stretched so taught, made it reminiscent of skin. The structure of the labyrinth was such that, because of the "slit" through which the clock could be seen, 4 enclosed spaces were created within the passageway. These were lit from the inside with incandescent bulbs.

The entire piece was suspended about 6 inches from the ground. This added a sense of weightlessness and allowed the piece to give and swing as the viewer touched the sides. A superstructure of wood was built to hang the piece from. One side of the labyrinth was exposed to the rest of the gallery and benches were provided along the parallel wall so that viewers could watch the silhouettes of other people moving through the labyrinth.

The final sculpture proper measured about 20' square not counting the projection room and performance space (which were defined by extant walls). The model was built to test construction methods and measures (total) about 5' long by 2' wide. Steel wire replaced the copper tubing for use in the model and doll house lights were used to imitate the full scale lighting.

The whole piece took about 2.5 months to design, plan, and construct. The model took about 20 hours. The exhibit was titled *?* (yeah, just *?* :-P) and ran from Nov through Dec of 2005.

The photographs are, unfortunately, an extremely limited view of the work, but they're all I have, so I'm putting them here .