RT Livingston is a Conceptual artist living in Lower Manhattan, nine blocks north of Ground Zero.

Immediately after the 9.11 tragedy, the area surrounding Ground Zero became a patchwork of memorial walls. A mélange of flags, photographs, newspaper clippings, baseball caps, police and fire department badges from all over the world, teddy bears, tee shirts, flowers, makeshift altars, notes from strangers, love letters, intimate poems, philosophical poems-all flying in the face of terror. Some images hang from elegant wrought iron fences; others anchored to the industrial chain link variety. These fences inspire "Chain-Link."

"Chain-Link" is a simple, freestanding, rectangular room with chain-link fencing as walls. It is twice as long as wide. Proportions matter, not size. Doors at the short ends of the rectangle, representing the ebb and flow of ideologies, invite the public into its chamber. It provides the matrix upon which the public can attach their sentiments in this increasingly dangerous world where war looms heavily on our minds.

In the Mojave Desert, "Chain-Link," in the form of a chamber, stands exposed against an already unforgiving desert environment. This familiar readily available industrial material, juxtaposed against the rugged high desert floor, with snow capped Big Bear looming in the far distance, is a reminder of how the forces of man and nature are often in stark contrast. Ironically, nearly all the homes in the Mojave are surrounded by this industrial fencing as a way of keeping coyote and other predators away.

"Chain-Link" can be assembled anywhere in the world: in a museum, desert, mall, gallery, place of worship, atop a mountain, on an open plain, in a town square: anywhere. The actual fencing can be new, rented, used. It is designed to be recycled and thus it honors The Planet. Its duration depends on location. The structure itself is a natural setting for the unfolding human drama that will take place within its walls. Film and performance are inherent in its aesthetic.

The concept for "Chain-Link" is derived from architecture, industrial design, environmental art, installation art, performance art, sacred art, outsider art computer graphics and the web. It has both structure and randomness. The metaphor is simple. The human race is both linked and chained together, for better or for worse, til death us do part. There is no way out; chained or linked: you choose.