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Baltimore Project
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Baltimore Project

Artist
Year1980
Classification sculpture
Medium cor-ten steel and concord grey granite
Dimensionssite: 200 x 300 ft. (6095.7 x 9143.6 cm)
Credits Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • The work is an exterior environmental sculpture composed of cor-ten steel and concord grey granite. The Baltimore Project consists of ten major elements in steel and granite that allude to architectural walls, thresholds and pilings and is placed along two major axes over an area of approximately 300 square feet that is mostly wooded.  These elements and woodland setting combine to bring an aura of mystery to the building.  This is compounded by the shifting perceptions of color, light and mass that the work provides.  The metal looks aged and the granite blends perfectly with the natural environment.  These changes reflect condition assessment prepared by the artist.  According to artist "all of these elements could be read as either rooms from the past or foundations for things to be built.  Their scale and the distance between them has been arrived at by working closely with the idiosyncracies of the site: topography and particular trees."