Delta

A metallic tube covered in wrinkles and creases is twisted into a knot. Lynda Benglis made a series of these knots using aluminum screen covered in cheesecloth and plaster. She tied the materials while wet in a technique reminiscent of historically female modes of artistic production, such as embroidery. The knots were then sprayed with metals, sometimes by airplane technicians. In "Delta," Benglis combined the industrial materials common in Minimalist, geometric sculpture of the 1970s with organic, limb-like forms that suggest the softness of the human body.