Selected through a national
juried competition as the
signature work of art in front
of the Strathmore Hall Arts
Center, near Washington DC.
Tetra Con Brio originated through
a series of earlier works evolved
over a 9 year period. The design
for Strathmore started as a flat
pattern, influenced by the princi-
ples of the Sonata Form of musical
composition. In this pattern, the
underlying geometric grids act as
a visual scaffold to contain the
random chaos of the arced sculp-
tural forms. It is the interplay
between the ordered Apollonian and
uninhibited Dionysian forces which
invigorate the piece. When the
pattern was taken from the com-
puter to the studio, the musical
analogy transitioned from the
formal method inherent in the
Sonata Form to a more spontaneous
approach closer to Jazz. Through
improvisational bending, torquing,
twisting and breaking of the
ordered pattern, a dynamic tension
between the pure integrity of
tetrahedral geometry and the
emotionally intuitive process
was fused into the final work.

The Music Center was built by the
State of Maryland and Montgomery
County, the $100 million center
for the arts features a 2000 seat
concert hall that held it's
inaugural concert February 2005.
The 7 story, 186,000 square foot
building was designed by the firm
William Rawn Associates.