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99F-20"The Dog Ain't Dead Yet." |
| Build number: | 99F-20 (lifetime start #177) |
| Title: | "The Dog Ain't Dead Yet." |
| Date: | November 18 |
| Location: | Venice Breakwater, south side |
| Start: | 0900; building time: 6.5 hours |
| Height: | 3.3 feet |
| Base: | 1.75 feet, cylindric |
| Photography: | 1 roll RA135-24 w/LX and 85mm |
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Am I out of ideas? 99F-15 was pretty much the ne plus ultra of the "undulant panel" sculpture; that evolutionary path seems closed. But legs and arches are also approaching maturity; where do I go now?
Well, how about to the beach? Warm sand still feels good and it's still a great place to be.
1. Quiet The big hydraulic excavator is parked, silent. Mounds of sand near the Breakwater attest to its activities--they still haven't rebuilt the pipe joints out there--but today they're giving the whole thing a rest. Wonderful! Fine sand is harder to find; winter is here and turbulent currents have made layers of coarser material with the fines. Well, just deal with it; I've used worse. On a nice flat spot I start to build a base. "You've moved to Thursday?" "Oh, hi, Tim!" He hasn't been around much this year. "The tide was right today so I took the day off from work." We talk for a while of the Pavilion, politics and other subjects and then he takes off to swim. Too cold for me. I'd like to do at least two sculptures this weekend. With no help available I'll have to economize whenever possible. One way is to use native sand and that's not bad. As an experiment I alternate native with carried sand. The practice saves time and energy but I wonder how it'll affect the building. 2. Ripples With my first cut into the new pile I can feel the difference between layers. The top nine inches, all carried sand, is solid but below that I can feel the tool oscillate as it runs through alternating harder and softer layers. Interesting. I can see them also, the native layers being lighter colored than the carried. I hope it's strong enough. The starting idea is of a short pillar whose top has the lower end of an arch leg drooped over it. I cut the arch leg back and define the pillar but soon after that the sand begins to take over, with the arch leg's eastern edge running down to the ground as it turns. This should still allow room for a space behind it. Rubbing the sand to smooth it feels normal; the native sand layers aren't that much softer.
End. Report abandoned. |
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Larry Nelson
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