This Gallery is a glimpse into the birthing room of my artwork. Like Icarus, I hurl myself at the process, completely unaware of what I can't do. But when the stone sun meets flesh... I bow.
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From Gallery Earth, the Tree of Life gateway. My goal was to make a work of art that functions and possesses kinetic life.
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The first design meeting with my partner, Wolfie.
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It took some time but he finally came around to my way of expressing the concept.
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He barked encouragement while I set to the work paying homage to the source material above and beyond me.
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At the installation site, there will be stone decking laid under the gate that references the sun and moon cycles. Here I am feeling a little overwhelmed. Wolfie is focused on that evening's run on the beach.
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Turning toil to meditation.
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This last circle is, in fact, a sewer access cover. I decide that I will attempt another bit of alchemy : Create a work of art through intention.
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If a poor deceased cow in a vat of formaldehyde is Art, than so will be my sewer cover.
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Form and Function
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I wonder what those working men thought when resting at night on the open ground and looking at the silhouette of the rising pyramid against the purple sky ?
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Now on to anchoring the Tree of Life Gate
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The Gate is extremely heavy and requires counterweighting at its hinge.
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Which would be fine for 10 years. But I wish that this work last 100 years so I engineer a spring loaded wheel to carry the majority of the downward force and relieve the stones.
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The test. It rolls nicely along tops of the turtle shaped stones. I feel the thing breathing.
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I love the ancient nature of copper. It is one of the few metals that gets more beautiful with time.
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Exhaustion meets elation on the Pilgrimage Trail and decides to convert.
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