Escape 01
December 2011
Steel frame, aluminum wire screen, sheet metal
32” x 32” x 32” 

The basic unit of space in an engineered world, the box has the defining property of containment. 

Physical, conceptual, and virtual boxes abound. Some two millennia of the architectural achievement in the Western tradition precede the perfection of the modern architectural box.

In a virtual world the task is reversed; we begin with a box.

V = a * b * c

The virtual box has no physical limits.

Sometimes, the only motive is to escape.

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This work utilizes a physical property known as the Faraday Cage. The metal screens and conductive metal frame form an object that is (nearly) electrically impenetrable. Shocks, impulses, and radiation up to the Microwave spectrum are blocked or severely attenuated by its walls. Telecommunications devices such as cell phones, radios, and computers cannot transmit or receive signals to or from the outside world. 

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