One of three original designs made into 24 glass panels
ceramic frit on 4′ x 8′ glass panel
One of four panels (plus a whole lot more) low fire 8″ x 8″ tile
Over at Pasadena Daily Photo, Petrea is defending the virtues of public art, bless her heart. Since it’s my desire for blogging purposes, to remain under the moniker of Palm Axis, I’ve decided to do a post on the process of installing public art without giving authors, agencies, architects, contractors, locations or the finished result. Trust me, it’s spectacular.
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Well, are these yours? I love the footprint!! LOVE IT.
I want to go and see this. In fact, I want a tour of all the Palm installations. Shall we call the 1947 Project? Oh, hell. They only do murdery tours and dark days in donuts–not beautiful artwork like this… well some things they tour are quite arty. Like the stone castle in Glendora.
I like the ceramic footprint pieces you’ve done so much. I want a wall of them or a floor of them or something. I just need to make a little extra money and… then…oooooh!
What is the story between the pomeranian and the soldier? Beautiful silhouettes of the leaf forms, especially the pods. Such a tease not showing us more. Do I hear tour?
I took the tour and it is spectacular. This is only a fraction of the total.
giant steps
That shoe sole pattern should be at MOMA. Extraordinary!
All though I have taken the whole tour I have never seen the glass shoe print presented as a hard edge black and white graphic. I would love to see it painted big too. Makes ya wonder what the whole tour really is.
You know P.M, posting the process of installing public art without giving authors, agencies, architects, contractors, locations or the finished result, will present like a mix of two genres: performance based materialism (often involving sculpture and bureaucracies) and a form of confessional poetry which is a genre characterized by the work of Sexton and Plath, two poets who cashed it in for the futility of it all. Of course, we have pretty functional reuptake inhibiters now.
If we can mix materials based process art and public media, confessional poetry, (especially that cat thing) urban sophisticated and outsider digital obsession, we have a new genre of interdisciplinary/hybrid poetics explicating the life of the artist in her environment. I am not sure that your audience there in the blogisphere is completely aware of your range and how what might be seen as a ground breaking artery of your primary work (my perception) pours out of you despite agencies, architects, contractors, locations. I have suggested before that you are conforming a new genre in the history of poetics. Are you still doing the big publicly themed installations?
Wow. The footprint reminds me of Australian aboriginal art.
Oh good heavens! Mr. Walter Chef King is a most thoughtful contributor. A genius. Plath and Sexton? Sexton? I love her. LOVE. This is exciting thought! Their seeds have been recognized and need to be watered.
Are you sure that Chef King isn’t Professor King? If his food is as good as his comments he must be a great chef. Love the shoe print too, so organic. I would like see the rest of the short wide photo-tease of orange into blue tiles.
Transitional framing devise from fall to winter..confused? off to ceramics….more of a response later
Confused? Usually. I do want to see the spectacular finished result and more of your work.
Petrea: Not anymore, but yes, they are and thank you.
Ms O Loooney: I’d like nothing more then to have a tour of the stone castle (and the historical bouganvilla). I’ve seen it from the curb. (you and me sister): I want some x-tra cash so I can afford to go green.
John E: It’s complicated. I addressed a very different audience on this part of the project. The WWII generation and toddlers. Bright colors based on the seasons, pets, simple images. For the older set I chose images out of the Los Angeles Public library collection “Shades of L.A.”. Other elements involved (mosaic) and plasma cut steel forms of differing styles of historical homes represented in the area (Queen Ann,Craftsmen etc). The art work is applied to the back wall of a stage. I designed the stage (with the help of the lead architect) to work with the bio-morphic influenced shapes of the leaf form tile panels. The shape is quite recognizable from arial view google maps which pleases me to no end. My largest commission to date. What I’ve presented thus far is only half of the project.
Chinese Elm: who are you?
AH: very
Ann: funny you should say so. I titled each of the designs after a continent. That particular print I called South America.
Chef: your comment made me cry. You have a talent for taking the murkiness of my yearnings and handing them back to me in a way I can recognize. I operate on an intuitive level that knows things but stumbles. Thank you for taking such care with me.
D.: He should have been, his father is a retired art history professor. We’ve been good friends to one another for many years. (Walter is the subject of the last post I left off on at Palm Axis). He’s a man of many talents and incredibly thoughtful as Ms H points out. I’ll send you a j-pg.
Keith: Thank you. I may one day put together a web site. I’ve bought my domain name as well as the PA’s.