As part of my 2008 solo exhibition at the University of Maine at Augusta, I installed a section of orange construction fencing in the center of campus as the starting point for a piece entitled "A Drift."

Ubiquitous in the construction landscape, this fencing is conventionally used to demarcate space, limit access and advise pedestrians that there is work in progress.

Although cited along familiar walking paths, the fencing I installed did not demarcate anything official or off limits.

Instead, I invited campus community members to cut the fence into sections as large or small as they liked, and then place their cut fence fragments on the wall of the gallery where I was also exhibiting work.

In this way, participants slowly dismantled the outdoor fence throughout the run of the exhibition. The outdoor fence became virtually non-existent over time, eventually evoked merely by green support posts and orange plastic fragments.

Indoors, the new drawing of the fence began to grow in direct proportion to its disappearance outdoors. Participants skillfully played along in a spatial memory game. They tried to reassemble an approximation of the fence on the gallery wall by attempting to place their cut fragment in its corresponding place amidst the evolving reconfigured indoor "fence".

Gallery attendants regularly invited visitors to participate in the piece, providing scissors and offering instructions and encouragement.

The piece functioned as both a participatory sculpture/relief drawing and a simultaneous indoor/outdoor installation.