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“It’s stainless-steel wire rope netting, so it’s like jumping into a cheese grater,” Mulligan said.

“I found a piece of wire rope and realized it was like rope but steel — and in that sense, it was a derivation of fiber,” she says.

“Why am I making a field with steel reeds?” she asks rhetorically, referring to her many sculptures composed of waves of bent wire rope planted in concrete.

It was under his tutelage that she started working with her now-signature material, wire rope, which she discovered on a trip to a junkyard in search of inspiration and free materials.

And parts of the fly system, made up of wire rope lines and riggings, had rusted.