Amy Hauft Period Room Project for Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 1998 Work occupies entire 1,200 square foot gallery space housed in power station designed by Horace Trumbauer, 1893. Plane of caned plywood is 37" high. A waist-high plane of plywood frames, each pressed with machine-woven rattan, is installed wall-to-wall across the gallery. The plane accommodates every eccentricity of the existing sheetrock walls that line the bottom half of the space. Cut into this plane are three pathways, each leading directly from the gallery entrance to a hand-caned chaise. Lit from beneath by fluorescent lamps and from above by natural light, the plane becomes transparent or opaque depending on the viewer's position in the room. The view from beneath the plane reveals two of the three chaises.