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| Rain kept me away from the beach for a month, a regular procession of storms. When the calm finally came I was well charged. |
| Build number: | 98F-7 (lifetime start #134) |
| Date: | April 18 |
| Location: | Venice Breakwater, south side of elbow |
| Start: | 0815; building time: 9 hours |
| Height: | 4.3 feet |
| Base: | 1.75 feet, cylindric |
| Photography: | half a roll E100S-135, w/LX; 2 rolls TMX120 w/6X7 |
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The day was sunny and cool. Not much breeze and the surf was flat. Maybe the Pacific was tired from all the thrashing of the last few weeks. There was some good sand, but the layers were thin between other layers of coarser sand. I skimmed the top and hoped for the best.
I had an idea for a sculpture whose top was a big sphere. In execution that seemed to be boring, so I started changing it. The result was nearly chaos and it seemed that everything else I did just made it worse. Not until the last hour did the sculpture begin to look like something. The ball top had been transmogrified into a concave/convex surface and other parts had evolved from there. "I can see a day coming when I'll need more time." That's what I wrote in my notes for this sculpture, and I've never been more right. Subsequent sculptures gradually grew to fill the day, or as much of it as I had energy for. Many of them ran over 10 hours, prompting a search for alternative sculpture materials. That didn't work very well; I wound up making smaller sculptures, either free-pile or hybrid free-pile and form. | ||||||||||
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