presenting Nancy Rubins...contemplating ferrous metals

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NANCY RUBINS:

HER WORKS: overwhelming, thrilling, fantastic, gargantuous, contradictory, perplexing, excessive.

HER CHARACTER: inquisitive, playful, intuitive, ambitious, physically ambitious as well.
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Rx to ferrous metals so far-- that metal will need to be used creatively or in a contradictive way to how it is normally used. Her experiements with how thin one can make concrete until concrete becomes flexible or how paper can be built up so much that looks as if it carries a substancial weight. I am researching metal laminates and airplane metal advancements presently since she is always also interested in things and technology she doesn't understand.
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Rx to Railings: I have picked up a number of architectural detail books but am first thinking creatively as to what railing might mean. In essence it is to divide two things and maintain a visual connection between them still, one side is often dangerous and the other side not. In the process of dividing, they are made with the human scale in mind and make connections with many parts of the body- primarily the hand, the hips when a person leans towards the other side, of the gluts if a person is using a railing to support themselves as they look towards something on their side of the railing, and also the feet which need to slip under the bottom of it so as to get as close a view as they can.. Consequently, railings have to be supportive and rigid-- always maintaining their duty to divide. (divide the sea/cliff from the viewer, the stair from the dangers of failing, the painting from the disrespectful viewer, the animals from the zoo visitors)
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Ideas coming from this:
-a wall is essentially a tall railing without the visual connection of the railing.
-Metal structure is forgiving to allowings a transparency to its viewers on either side which is helpful.
-a floor could be like a wall dividing spaces, though without a visual connection.
-does a railing always create a boundary for viewing? if so- does the object of view always have to be at eye level from a person standing as it typically is?
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