A quick recap for those who might forget-- I am investigating what the railing will be now not in the TDR but rather the central railing to the pit which fortunately is removable. This site is adjacent to the wooden pit seating and provides me with 1.75" footings into the concrete floor at every 4.85'. Still considering Nancy Rubins and ferrous metals.
The above images are preliminary sketches of what I am intending on using as the starting point for my design now-- and I will see what kind of problems I run into and whether extra support will be needed for the many many tires- some with rubber treads and some just the frames. I will bind them with a combination of or bolts and nuts or thin picture cable as Nancy Rubins might have herself.
It borrows from Rubins in reinterpreting an object- in this case, the bike-- and obscuring it so that it can become something else- an object that interferes with the view and begs to be noticed. I'd like to have wheels with their treads of varying heights at the bottom to act as the grip for the hand, and maybe have the occasional one that still spins so as to challenge the idea of the continuous railing which merely acts as a guide rather than an object to be looked at (in awe?). It is also contradictory to the idea of railing because the railing becomes the view itself, and the filling material where the railing usually is empty. In this light-- the tires seem to be freestanding and the railing is the obstacle that disables a standing figure to walk through.
Tomorrow's agenda is getting the footings done for the pit-- making sure they fit. The next step is getting a whole lot of bike tires-- most likely from the guys at the bike dump-- and maybe some sprockets too which would add to the precarious nature of this railing.
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