Monday, May 21, 2012

new hex in progress

Penny Hex
-four feet across / 1245 pennies will be inlaid in 3/4" plywood / will be cut into a circle & shellacked




 *webcam photos
(pennies read like a series of poems)

Friday, May 4, 2012

I'll see you at the end of the world





a collection of pits, monuments, fountains, planters, benches, and lights that seem to resemble cairns, altars, and sacrificial slabs.

One of many cairns marking British mass graves at the site of the Battle of Isandallwana, South Africa

 Carl Andre - Equivelant VIII, 1966

 Richard Long - Blue Stone Circle (40 stones) 1995

 an intervention I created a few weeks ago

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Archaic Torso

a new sculpture that i know nothing about (shells, hockey pucks, and foam)

Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke

We can not know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening apples. but
his torso still glows like a candelabra,
in which his gaze, only scaled back,

to hold and shine. Otherwise the bug could not
the chest blind you, and through the placid hips
the loins could a smile to go
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would enstellt and short 

under the translucent cascade Shultern 
and would not glisten like a wild beast;

and did not bring out all its edges
like a star: there is no place
that you can not see. You must change your life.


[translated by Google Translate]
other versions here

outside Gillespie Elementary School, Chicago, IL