Monument to the Unknown Variables
The questions change, but we spend our lives solving for x, sometimes y. Permanently installed in a Stanford courtyard ringed by the offices of quants. Concrete representations of the unknown. Mathematics as metaphor; sculpture as furniture.
Monument to the Unknown Variables wood over steel frame, 6 units total, each: 18'10" x 18'10" x 30", 2011, permanently installed on the Stanford University campus
Monument to the Unknown Variables wood over steel frame, 6 units total, each: 18'10" x 18'10" x 30", 2011, permanently installed on the Stanford University campus
Monument to the Unknown Variables (detail) wood over steel frame, 6 units total, each: 18'10" x 18'10" x 30", 2011, permanently installed on the Stanford University campus
Monument to the Unknown Variables wood over steel frame, 6 units total, each: 18'10" x 18'10" x 30", 2011, permanently installed on the Stanford University campus