Fluent Traces
by Kendall Buster at Wilmer Hale,
Washington D.C. 2006
Kendall Buster’s sculpture, Fluent Traces, is composed of three large elements, each about 25' long and weighing 1500 lbs. Each modular section is made of manipulated steel bar stock covered first with a wire frame and then with a skin of synthetic, white, delicate netting.
The WilmerHale building is architecturally unique among D.C.’s mostly colonial buildings. The most prominent feature, and the installation location, is the thirteen-story atrium. Created by structural glass and canted in space, it forms the building’s façade and also presents access challenges.
Methods & Materials, Inc. worked with the building's glass installers, FN Glass, to install an aerial swing stage at the top of the atrium. The three cloud pieces were assembled on the ground, raised 170' and mounted in mid-air.