FRAME BUILDING
documenta 6, Kassel
1977


This contribution was made in response to an invitation to the Documenta 6: A frame measuring 13x13m and 1.6m wide was made of two planes of flat steel bands laid on the diagonal, the bands in one plane running at right angles to those in the other.  The structure was tilted somewhat to frame the view of the landscape behind.  A 22-metre long steel arm tied back by steel cables to the inside of the frame projects from the visual field. A similar, but far smaller, frame is fixed to the end of this arm, much like the sight on a rifle.
By walking along a catwalk that roughly forms an " L" in plan the viewer first arrives at the narrow side of the large frame, then comes back onto its main axis ending at a lookout position that cantilevers beyond the terrace parapet. The small gun-sight frame in front of the viewer functions like an optical device and focuses a smaller section of the larger image.