Brick installation pieces continued into the 80's. But early in this decade I was afforded the possibility of expanding the size and range of materials when my proposal for the 1st Bank Atrium at the Pillsbury Center in Minneapolis was accepted. The resulting piece was made of 12,000 pounds of black granite suspended on cable from a ceiling 83' above the floor. This lead to analogous opportunities in Baltimore (GSA), Chicago and elsewhere. These were corporate and government commissions which, while unrecognized by a high-minded critical community which disdains projects tainted by commerce, gives the artist the chance to assay spaces, materials and technologies normally fiscally out of reach.