Triptych 1986

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City

Dimensions:
Overall: 15' 5"H x 12' 8"W x 5'9"D (470 x 386 x 175 cm.)
Left and Right Vitrines: 7'6" x 5'6" x 4'7" (229 x168 x140 cm.)
Top Vitrine: 5'10" x 12'8" x 5'9" (178 x 386 x 175 cm.)

Elements:

Top Vitrine:
-Whirling apparition
-Blue-violet aura
-Rising and falling horizon arc

Left Vitrine:
-Golden vortices
-Cinder landscape
-Orbiting black spheres
-Whirling fan

Right Vitrine:
-Pure white powder landscape
-Balance beam with pigment cones
-Gold ring spinning into sphere
-Incremental traveling line

Materials:
Air, Calcium carbonate, Coal ash, Steel, Glass, Aluminum, Brass, Pigment, Motors, Timers, Nylon, Full spectrum and black florescent light, Incandescent light, Gold.

Comments:

"Triptych was designed and built into The New Museum's large three-sectioned window on Broadway in New York City. The work was hereby in view to the public at all hours. There are three distinct realms; a triad.

On street level are two contrasting images side by side. One side is dark. Ash and dust are in the air, there is a sense of disorder or chaos. Small black spheres orbit erratically. Turbulence is emphasized by the illuminated swirling vortices.

The opposite side is glowing white light. A mountainscape of the purest, finest, white powder sets the scene. The geometry of a triangle is traced in the air by a moving black and white incremental line of measure. This triangle emanates from the brilliant light source. A gold hoop revolves, transforms into a sphere. A balance beam weighs the opposites - black and white.

Above, a glowing deep blue aura spans and unites the contrasting scenes below. Within the glow an apparition hovers: a diaphanous spinning form revolves tracing an intangible shape in the air; an arc slowly rises and sets." (KJ-AG)