This piece was created by formwork, a technique more common to the construction of buildings which involves filling a mould with cement. Its multi-level form includes flat surfaces on which plants or objects could be placed, or members of the public may sit down. The composition of the work recalls the Brutalist architecture of the 1960s and 1970s, which Melsheimer has recreated in her gouache sketches. This piece forms part of the artist’s research into architectural forms, and more specifically those of modernism and its descendants.
