CIRCUIT
Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY. and Davidson Galleries, Seattle,WA.
2010 - 2011
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Seattle Times 2011Circuit was inspired by an imagined scene from a bird’s-eye perspective of hundreds of people carrying black sections of a sculpture on their backs up a snow-clad mountain. The vision involved people carrying the parts of the sculpture up the mountain along several routes simultaneously, and then assembling it in sections just below the summit to form a circuit of forms around the peak with its constituent parts. The sculpture is made up of 400 ceramic parts that bolt together. The inside of each ceramic part is reinforced with a wood frame bonded with gypsum polymer to corn-based resin embedded in marine netting.
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Circuit, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY. and Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, 2010 – 2011. When assembled as a unified form, the 10,000-pound sculpture is 24 feet by 24 feet by 9 feet high. The sculpture was made during a residency at Pottery Northwest in Seattle (WA).
CIRCUIT
Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY. and Davidson Galleries, Seattle,WA.
2010 - 2011
Related articles:
Sculpture 2010
American Craft 2010
Stranger 2010
Seattle Times 2011
Circuit was inspired by an imagined scene from a bird’s-eye perspective of hundreds of people carrying black sections of a sculpture on their backs up a snow-clad mountain. The vision involved people carrying the parts of the sculpture up the mountain along several routes simultaneously, and then assembling it in sections just below the summit to form a circuit of forms around the peak with its constituent parts. The sculpture is made up of 400 ceramic parts that bolt together. The inside of each ceramic part is reinforced with a wood frame bonded with gypsum polymer to corn-based resin embedded in marine netting.
IMAGES
Circuit, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY. and Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, 2010 – 2011. When assembled as a unified form, the 10,000-pound sculpture is 24 feet by 24 feet by 9 feet high. The sculpture was made during a residency at Pottery Northwest in Seattle (WA).
In the winter of 2012, plans were organized for 250 snow-shoe-clad volunteers to meet at the base of 6000-foot-high Lookout Mountain in Washington State’s Central Cascades. Buses to the base of the mountain, dog teams, warming huts, cache points and EMT personal were organized as well. Just prior to the launch date, the privately owned forest company that had agreed to allow use of Lookout Mountain had to rescind permission because it had just completed a land swap deal with the National Forest Service, trading the mountain for a parcel of low land forest. The mountain could not be “encumbered” with the temporary sculpture installation while the deal was under way and once the deal was complete, the Forest Service would not grant permission for the sculpture to be temporarily sited on the mountain top. The sculpture is currently disassembled and stored, awaiting another alpine site where it can be temporarily installed.
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