Working at the intersection of painting and sculpture, Jessica Stockholder's site-specific installations ? most recently Color Jam (2012), which engulfed a city block last summer in Chicago's Loop - climb walls, poke through windows, and slyly redefine the spaces that contain them. Her smaller-scale studio works fuse bits of furniture and household items with punctuating daubs of color. She combines chaos with formality, humor with elegy, pleasure with thinking. Stockholder has exhibited worldwide; we spoke at her studio at the University of Chicago.  - Jude Stewart THE BELIEVER: Where did you start with this piece? JS: Studio work always seems to grow one work from another. This piece is a response to another piece I made with wire, a smaller wall piece. I like that wire is such a readily available, insubstantial material that you can manipulate. I'm using it to draw in space, to carve out volumes in space that start to feel palpable. It's both a framing mechanism and a drawing tool. Then I was trying to figure out what kind of attachment system to use. I used these copper flashing pieces that are curved. I thought I could find some off-the-shelf crimping material, and I couldn't. BLVR: Yeah, or twist-ties or something. JS: Twist-ties weren't going to do it. These needed to stick to the material. BLVR: Are these structurally important? JS: Oh yeah, they're holding it all together. BLVR: Then I won't pull one off. JS: [Smiles] Yeah, I wouldn't recommend that. BLVR: Any other reason