Smoke series of Sculptures
for Frank Stella

Michael O'Rourke, 1991 - 1992

In 1990, Frank Stella, for whom I had worked previously, approached me to see if I could help with a difficult modeling problem.

Stella had become interested in the forms made by smoke floating in the air, and wanted to make sculptural forms like those. After several failed attempts to build these complex forms in his studio, he asked me to try to do so digitally.

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For a published description of the process I used for these sculptures, see the article I I wrote for Sculpture magazine in 1993.