Stiff Box 12 is a public artwork by Lucas Samaras, installed in a courtyard at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
[3][4][5] In 1982, Norman Parkinson shot a photo of model Iman by the sculpture in Palm Beach, Florida.
One on side, the thick sheet of steel gracefully curves around and back on itself, making loops and rounded edges.
[2][9]Albert Hofammann, writing for the Morning Call in 1984, wrote of the sculpture, "The work has an enormous physical weight, but its mass viewed in aesthetic terms is not clumsy for several reasons: The depth is only 14 inches, thus providing a two- dimensional effect, and the configurations are as much concerned with open space as with solid mass.
"[1] Thomas E. Mcevilley noted in Sculpture in the Age of Doubt that the piece has a "lightninglike and dragonlike support .