For the Heaven and Earth Exhibition this year I was selected to make work at a new site- Shilshole Bay Beach. What I intend to do is go out each weekend and sculpt another piece based on famous works though out history. These pieces will be in chronological order, beginning here with one of the earliest known examples of sculpture, and eventually I'll replicate my way up through art history as I work my way up the beach. As these sculptures are made of sand and clay I intend them to be gradually washed away by the tide, just as time gradually washes away all of mankind's endeavors. Here you see the first of my installation: a Cycladic figure. There have been many of these figures found in the Cyclades isles and are dated from the third millennium BCE.
The very next day I went back to see what was left of it after a full tide cycle and a night of hard rain.
You can see that I'll have to adjust my building strategy if I want to have these "gradually" erode. But learning better methods and techniques of preservation was a challenge for our ancestors as it is for me today.
You can see that I'll have to adjust my building strategy if I want to have these "gradually" erode. But learning better methods and techniques of preservation was a challenge for our ancestors as it is for me today.