Exposed Structures (system mapping)

LOCATION
Main Street and 2nd Street, Kansas City, MO
OWNER
City of Kansas City, MO
ARTIST
Stuart Keeler
DATES
2008
MEDIUM
Painted steel, pavement striping and landscaping
As if a specimen of the Missouri River’s substrate is presented on the site – pinned to the ground. The triangles reference the mathematician Pythagoras with cut steel that creates a tentlike “shelter” open to the sky. The mathematics to create the GIS mapping of the river bed creates a new memory work in the form of a living trellis. Undulating curves are informed through replicated mapping folds, implied movement and sculptural cavity.
Part of the City of Kansas City’s One Percent for the Arts Program.