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00F-8 "Listening" |
| Build number: | 00F-8 (lifetime start #193) |
| Title: | "Listening" |
| Date: | March 17 |
| Location: | Venice Breakwater, on the flat |
| Start: | 1030; building time: 7 hours |
| Height: | 4.4 feet |
| Base: | 1.75 feet, cylindric |
| Photography: | 2 TMX120 w/67II and 165; sunset w/WR; 360 walkaround and stills w/XL1, with sunset video shot by passerby |
General Notes:The Sand Cart (otherwise known as the Generalized Materials Transport Device) has liberated me. It's faster, and makes possible longer hauls. Today was intended as a test of the speed, with the tide not uncovering good sand until nearly noon. It wound up being a test of the long haul because I wanted to build on the flat and the best sand was away south. This worked out well: good sand, good building site, not much extra work.Quiet reigned over the Breakwater. No machines, no construction, just nice smooth damp sand left by the receding tide. I set up and went to work, and then the construction crews showed up with whanging pumps and clattering backhoes. The day was lovely. I put up a kite as soon as I got there and it floated steadily. Sunlight sparkled on the water and steep green faces propelled surfers. The day raced by. Some parts of the sculpture had to be scanted. As it was I finished still photography, with the shutter speed at half a second, as the sun disappeared dimly red in near-ocean vapor. |
Design Notes:The main idea was an outworking from the previous sculpture: a concave face holding a smaller sub-sculpture. After this progressed it didn't look like much so I started changing it. The sand began to flow into shape.There are days, and days. Some days I can't do anything right. Other days, quite rare, are times when every design I try turns to gold. This was such a day. Maybe it was the brevity. There was no time for intense consideration because I'd started late in the race with the sun. So, ideas flowed and the sand followed. A nice silky strong pile, it put up with all of my manipulation, including the heavy ball atop the concave arch right at the sculpture's top. Passersby enjoyed finding images in this sculpture. One man said it had an attitude of listening. To me it looked rather Japanese. I liked it. |
Photograph by Rich Johnson | |
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