This two part alu­minum sculp­ture was com­mis­sioned for the ex­hi­bi­tion Ter­ence Gower: Pub­lic Spirit at the Hirhhorn Mu­seum in Wash­ing­ton, DC. The in­stal­la­tion was built around the story of Hir­sh­horn, On­tario, an ideal town planned but never built in the Cana­dian wilder­ness. The two sculp­tures that make up Pri­vate En­ter­prise / Pub­lic Spirit are 1:10 scale mod­els of the two prin­ci­pal build­ings of the town: the of­fice tower to be built for Hir­sh­horn’s min­ing com­pany and the pub­lic mu­seum to house the Hir­sh­horn art col­lec­tion. De­pend­ing on a viewer’s im­pres­sions of the ex­hi­bi­tion and re­search, the open frame struc­tures of the sculp­ture could rep­re­sent the build­ings un­der con­struc­tion, bea­cons of a shin­ing tech­no­log­i­cal fu­ture, or al­ter­nately, two skele­tal ru­ins left by some de­struc­tive event.