Construction and Results

This is my lovely assistant Kristin. Without good reliable friends like her life would suck.

Finished construction end-on view. Best truck ever in background.

Here's the shadows I was hoping for. They look amazing.

My ridiculous paint scheme in response to the dullness of where it was to be installed...

The space...

Me explaining why it is how it is.

Final position looks way better in the space. It looks as if it's reaching toward the corners of the skylight.

Concept Stage

I first wanted to do an exaggerated drawing of the space just to get a feel for it.

 Then I started to think about the skylight above so I thought tree. This was folly...

Tree gets too conceptual so I looked at the space some more. The space is rectangular and tall and I wanted to work with the awareness of this. So I arrived at tower and decided to let the making begin.

Final Project

This was my aha moment. This project. Making sculpture that formally relates to to a space. The difference hit me: Place is what you make it and space is purely physical location. It's actually a difficult thing to completely dissociate from a place and view it as pure space.

Concepts

As promised, these are my original concept photos for the the first two projects. I unfortunately do not poses any photos of the finished history project. I wasn't that fond of the results anyway. It's all just proof that time, deadlines, and obligations can completely cripple ambition and craftsmanship. Not gonna let it bring me down.