http://bureau-spectacular.net/711_WELEPHANT.html White Elephant (Privately Soft) (2011) Exhibition Space: LoT Louisville, KY The White Elephant is roughly 10'x10'x10'.

It has three basic premises: 1. A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house. 2. An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualificat ions of plans and sections. 3. An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside. Its exterior is clad with translucent polycarbonate, and the interior is stuffed cowhide. It tumbles and changes orientation and can flip to eight different sta nces. What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of int erior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding mic ro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidit y/fluidity and size/scale. Design Leader: Jimenez Lai Project Manager: Thomas Kelley Fabrication: PR&vD, Andrew Akins Team: Jimenez Lai, Thomas Kelley, Cyrus Penarroyo, Andrew Akins Construction Assisted by: Mike Mead, John Stoughton, Anton Bakerjian Photography: Magnus Lindqvist, Kyle D. Eberle and Kamil Krol Many thanks to Drura Parrish, Rives Rash, and the continuing support of Universi ty of Kentucky and Land of Tomorrow