Still Figure (Ghost Beam Series)

  • 2016
  • Industrial Floor Paint
  • 15 ¾ x 32 x 15 ½ inches
  • In 2015 Piers was given permission from both the director and head conservator of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York city, to laser scan a section of World Trade Center steel box beam. The digitized section was elongated, 3D printed, cast in rubber and contorted into anthropomorphized human forms. These “Ghost Beam” sculptures merge the Pompeii plaster casts (of human shaped cavities in the Vesuvius ash) with the external steel structure of the Twin Towers.
Proposal for 911 Steel Beam Fallen Figure. 2015. Rubber with internal wire structure (2)-2