The tree project was originally proposed and organized by Chicago Sculpture International, a group of artists devoted to the understanding and creation of sculpture as a unique and vital contribution to society. The project will be completed by the end of November, and the decorated and carved tr...
Tango, from jazz greatDiane Reevescame on and I immediately felt like it should be shared. It’s a wordless song and for Reeves the composition serves as a sculpture’s underlying armature that she fills in with her improvisational skills. I’ve heard a number of performances of this song...
charm or totem to place on the sculpture so all the negative energy of the last year could be consumed by the fire. Since the arrival of the New Energy at the last Winter Solstice the trees have told me that we need to drop and ignore all the negative energy that surrounds us. ...
and discovering that overnight the courtyard DNA paving thread had arisen from its substrate, snaked through the air in slow, grinding movements, stems forming whenever complementary regions happened to become near each other, in a dance of stone, leading to a giant ribosomal sculpture in the ce...
We live near the city of Marietta, Georgia, where a growing focus on public art has made the city an increasingly exciting place to visit.This past spring, the town celebrated its newly opened Mountain to River Trail with an invitation to local artists to contribute to a rotating exhibit of...
‘80s, he uses a method that turns text from Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin into equivalent musical notes. For his three-part project “The American Manifest,” he confronted the ongoing legacies of colonialism and slavery in America with a 110-foot-long sculpture ...
artists from before and contemporary to him, using it as a way in which to find an avenue of expression that meshed with his vision. He did not want to remain a replicator but wantedinstead to be a creator. And that was the attraction for me. There was safetyand security in ...
feel and understand the arts of all the eras that surround them. Larger than life graffiti was the first thing we saw. It reminded me of the street side sculptures that lead patrons to New Jersey’s “Grounds for Sculpture.” That well placed urban “graffiti” let us know our walk was...
“tree art furniture and sculpture.” I first made that distinction out of an appreciation of the Old Faithful Inn’s architectural use of contorted lodgepoles. (I have published an essay on my admiration for the inn’s architect, Robert Reamer, and the carpenters/tree artists who implemented...
I enjoy working with fibres (silk and wool felting, and dyeing) as well as painting, photography and sculpture – a little bit of everything. I have a website where I share my current and finished projects: www.wolfwoods.com."