Through an emotive abstraction, Dana Oldfather examines the transitory nature of comfort, power, and security. Globulars and structural forms float and morph, at times propped up, and at times annihilated by something hard and sharp; objects overtake one another. The scene is a dance and a battle as contrasting forms converge and a soft, lyrical, electric spreads. Dana is drawn to the combination of sweet and dangerous, solid and ephemeral, natural and man-made. This combination of diametric elements results in a bio-mechanical environment and organism as one; something that has no birth or death and is beginning to show signs of autonomy.
Clockwise from left
Sixteenth Copper Cardinal 1976 Copper (16 squares) 0.6 x 200 x 200 cm ¼ x 78¾ x 78¾” 
Aluminium and Zinc Plain 1970 Aluminium (18 squares) and zinc (18 squares) 1 x 183 x 183 cm ½ x 72 x 72” 
Equivalent VI 1966 120 firebricks 12.5 x 274 x 57 cm 5 x 108½ x 22½” 
26 Straight Short Pipe Run 1969 26 unit-line of steel pipe 1,097 cm 432” long 
Aluminium Square 1968 25 Aluminium squares 1 x 500 x 500 cm x 197 x 197” 
Mönchengladbach Square 1968 36 unit-square of hot-rolled steel 0.6 x 300 x 300 cm ¼ x 118 x 118” 
Furrow 1981 Red cedar (12 elements) 150 x 150 x 90 cm 59 x 59 x 35½”
