Public Sculpture

Here is another extrusion piece I've played with over the weekend.

I've been thinking of making them playground friendly.

I also played with creating a reminder illustration on Phidean proportions. One in inches,

and the other in the easier to layout metric.

Tube Cube

Re-assessment of "Tube Cube" with a truncated spherical base. (It's hard to illustrate unless the camera is set at ground level.) It rises four inches at the center and tapers off to ground level radially at ten feet. It is hard to chose the best setting for this piece on a compass setting for best shadow effect. I have set the cube basically twenty degrees from due north.

Quick Sketch This Morning

I had to finish Helprin's "A Winter's Tale" this morning before getting on with life, but a multiple cube crystaline jumped right into my imagination right after. Weather changes have made my shoulder ache too, so I could not really rush things.

Here they are:

Orbitals

I've let my imagination wander a bit, but still am stuck inside a cube.

First I thought about atomic structure, that is, as we follow it mythologically. 

Then I constrained the idea of electron movement within the cube. What has four electrons? You know what? I flunked Physics, so i don't actually know.

Finally, I developed a band crossing the poles of a diagonally situated elliptical spheroid (diagonal across the cube in four directions), and then made the rest of it transparent.

Two Sphericals

Octahedron - Two-inch Waves, Five Interval

This was a start today. Perpendicular waves to each face. Looks very static. I'm contemplating sending the waves along a different direction.

Spherical Intersection to Produce a Ring

Not much activity here. With a late heavy snowfall slowing me down I stayed in and drew something simple. I posited the intersection between a sphere and it's inverse solid shape. The outer one having the smaller radius, the larger, a double curved cone-like solid with Phidian proportion multiple on the sphere's radius. This was then oriented vertically (90 degrees). Here is the result.

Today's Ideas

I've also looked into what might be below the surface of a monumental work I envisioned, one of the first I drew when I was teaching myself how to sketch on Google Sketchup.

Modulated Cube

Staying with five cycles of waves (across the diagonal on cube faces I lessened the amplitude of the cycles by half and got the above result.

Modulated Cube

Curious about how I would be attempting to fabricate these surfaces from a mold, casting six faces and assembling them I drew some more on the subject today.



I'm also including a previous drawing that follows my curiousity with geometric objects.

Visualization Of A Site

I've been playing around with certain tools that are readily available for public use to envision what it might look like to put a sculpture or two of my own design on a piece of land. This site I chose out of what seemed like an accrued life-long awareness of a simple vacancy on the edge of an urban residential subdivision. It's on a bluff over a river with a railroad also squeezed in below and in between. On the other side of the river is the Public Waterworks. So it's all marginal, public land already. It once had a water tower on it. What is left is the concrete base in an octagonal layout.











I imagine it amounts to about five to eight acres that is flat enough to still use as a park for public sculpture.

Androgyny 2

Sphere with Portal

32' Double Helix