in 2016, halvorson created three site-specific sculptures for her first outdoor exhibition at storm king art center. her large, painted wooden rulers function as both art object and perceptual tool, emphasizing the human labor of painting with the massive scale of the surrounding environment. "i was hoping it would align with certain natural features that you could almost measure — the length of the ridge of a mountain or the distance between trees,” halvorson said of her giant measuring devices. “it is always changing based on your orientation to it.”