Jackie Ferrara received no formal art training; her passion for creating art grew from her interest in building furniture. Although this work shares some of the repetition and simplicity of minimal sculpture, it was meticulously crafted by hand and doesn’t have the manufactured look of Minimalism. Ferrara re-asserts the artist’s hand through her process and choice of material. Wood provides warmth, and the work’s structure—derived from non-Western building forms: pyramids and ziggurats—stamps this sculpture with human touch while evoking the past.