Cones & Pillars series
for Frank Stella

Michael O'Rourke, 1985

In 1985, while working at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory, I did a series of digital sculptures for the artist Frank Stella. These were an extension of his Cones and Pillars series

Stella had previously done a series of relief paintings involving these geometric forms produced as flat cut-outs overlaid on each other. The task here was to create similar compositions, but now using fully three-dimensional forms. Because of the complexity of fabricating these forms and their intersections, Stella sought us out.

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I described a process similar to the one used here for Stella in an article published in Sculpture magazine in 1988.