Nicholas Wilder, a young Los Angeles art dealer with an eye for new talent, saw one of Nauman's fibreglass pieces and couldn't get it out of his head.
URT is busy laying up the carbon fibre monocoque - which forms the structure around my 1,000mph office - and has already delivered some fibreglass test pieces ("splashes") so that we can start fitting out the cockpit.
When he retires, it may be fibreglass models or museum pieces, unless the habit of making boats as a hobby strikes a Taiwanese as a worthy enterprise.
The sculpture was then moulded in fibreglass (a total of 117 pieces), and from the moulds a stiffened latex and polyurethane skin was produced which retained all the texture from the original sculpture.
Newson explained that the piece was made from "a precursor to fibreglass" called Micarta, of which he is using one of the world's last remaining stockpiles.
The first was a 50 m fixed distance transect (while laying a 50 m fibreglass tape).
The order of reassembling and filling the mold may be reversed; fibreglass and resin, for example, are "laid up" in the mold pieces before they are reassembled.
These Pop art pieces, made in the late Sixties and early Seventies, consist of fibreglass female models posed as items of furniture.
In 1967, while studying in Hamburg, she found herself sculpting with fibreglass and polyester.
Boards in the exhibition from the 1950s look more like pieces of ship work, held together with shiny brass screws instead of today's aquadynamic fibreglass.
