Inspiration is everywhere.
I took the opportunity early this morning to walk through this beautiful Sculpture Park before the work of the symposium begins for the second day. Ojars Feldberg’s goal to place sculpture in nature is succeeding at every level. As one walks through the Park natural forms and sculptures complete for you attention!
One year ago I was here finishing this sculpture, “Quadrant Stone” while my son Benjamin was putting the final touches to his installation of prints “Spirit Trees” .
Spirit Trees
We also collaborated on another installation made of survey flags. Ben thought that his Spirit Trees might last a month or so before the images began to degrade and I imaged that the flags would be lucky to survive the summer.
Small Sun
To our mutual amazement both installations have made it for a year! Ben’s images have finally started to come apart and the logs are leaning dangerously, so it will come down soon. Don’t know what we will do about the “Small Sun” flag installation yet. That is for Ojars to decide.
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Working in the field of boulders
Iron/Stone artists are busy working on their patterns for the first iron pour of the symposium.
The meteor
Aaron Schmidt , on the left, working on his design
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Liz and Ben are moving right along with their sculpture.
Dan Postellion seems to like the working conditions.
Truly amazed these temporary works lasted as long as they did! Looks like the iron sculptors are having a blast!