Jeffrey Schiff
A Courtyard, an Axis, an Ambulatory
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Stux Gallery
Year: 1982
Materials: cast plaster
Based on Heidegger's famous analogy of the bridge, the barely suggested characteristics of courtyard, axis, and ambulatory already present in the gallery are completed with the insertion of large cast plaster blocks that form doorway (to receive the axis from the gallery entrance), low wall (to complete the implied courtyard), and sarcophagus-like center structure (to force ambulation around the form).