Ronald Versloot (1964) calls his wire figures floating drawings.
A tree trunk topped with a hat, a woman's face in a mirror or a couple making love are rendered in outline and placed freely in space or slightly in front of the wall.
The wire figures are akin to the lino figures Versloot used earlier in his paintings. These too were present as contours, like actors on a painted stage. He thus thematised the age-old Figure - Ground problem in painting: how to connect the human figure with the background. With the floating drawings, he goes a step further by placing them freely in space as independent figures.
The work is packed in a cardboard box, inside a layer of foamboard in which the shape of the figure is cut out. The title and signature are written on the foamboard.