For my three into one project, I've been trying to come up with new
measurement or a representation of a measurement that would never work, based on
my initial objects, which I've cast (hand boiler), used to made a kinetic sculpture
(measuring tapes) and used to made a wooden sculpture (different types of rulers).

I found a reference to this exhibition, hopefully it'll help me find my way:
Institute for Objective Measurement: with artists EA Byrne, Will Cruickshank, & Nina Wakeford

Nina Wakeford: Trials of Strength

Mark Dion's biography on Art:21

Tar and Feathers and Concrete Jungle I

'With some of my work, you can sense that it has a pretty dark tone. As much as
I’m engaged in a discourse that is ecological, I’m not one of those artists who is spending
a lot of time imagining a better ecological future. I’m more the kind of artist who is
holding up a mirror to the present and to the kinds of problems that we have right now.
As much as I would like to have a more utopian sensibility, my sensibility tends to the
dystopian, to the dark side.'
- Mark Dion

An Interview with James Turrell: Places: Design Observer

Georges Rousse paints designs in spaces so that the viewer can
only see the intended outcome from one particular spot.

A book of birds, not faces, by Andrew Zuckerman, not Zuckerberg.

Bicarbonate of soda and vinegar seem so boring now. I love the dry delivery of the first video.

Accroche

He describes his practice as the building of constructions, where drawing up plans and making decisions on measurement and scale are crucial to his process. Although he sometimes stains his materials, he mostly keeps the material's natural colour and rarely carves or casts.
Influences
Puryear is influenced by woodworking, Shaker-style furniture, basketry, and construction techniques, a strong interest in other cultures and ornithology. Many of his wooden sculptures consist of latticed wood or wood that curves into bulbous shapes, as with the undulations in the hull of a boat. Before becoming a Sculptor, he studied crafts, how to build guitars, furniture, and canoes.

Themes
Through his use of materials, it is easy to see that Puryear likes to play with contradictions and to challenge perceptions, such as our assumptions about weight being proportional to size. As Puryear has said, 'I'm interested in mediating between a feeling of massiveness and fragility to reach a point of extreme vulnerability Wire mesh allows for all this. It can appear massive and opaque, but it is actually a thin veil.'

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Puryear began making sculptures based on the Asian yurts - these are dwellings that consist of woven wood covered by felt and secured by large wood doors, creating interior spaces, that are secure, but unreachable.

'I value the referential quality if art, the fact that work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them. The ideas that give rise to a work can be quite diffuse, so I would describe my usual working process as a kind of distillation – trying to make coherence out of things that can seem contradictory. But coherence is not the same as resolution. The most interesting art for me retains a flickering quality, where opposed ideas can be held in tense coexistence.'

Famous works

Ladder for Booker T Washington, 1996, made from a 36-foot-long split sapling

Made from a 36-foot-long, split sapling, the ladder becomes narrower so that viewers might question their perspectives and make the top look farther away. Booker T Washington (1856 -1915) was an emancipated slave and orator who took a softly-softly approach to campaigning for equal rights for African-Americans, stopping short of demanding the right to vote.

Box and Pole, 1977

This work comments on human condition, whereby you can feel superior in some instances (looking over box) and inferior in others (looking up at 100ft high poll). It also reminds me of pole vaulting, where there is a possibility you could reach that great height, and er... then crash down on a wooden box!

More information
MOMA Interactives

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago