A Place is a Place is a Place
Title of Artwork: A Place is place is a place…
A Place is place is a place… is a site-specific sculpture created specifically for Blackfoot Pathway Sculpture in the Wild, September 2019. This multilayered artworks objective is to create a depth of vision, generating a characteristic structural “carving” reminiscent in many of my artworks. In this way, the sculptures always possess a form for estrangement that allow the artwork to contain a proximity, similarity and continuation as found within the evolvement of the natural world. This characteristic method for “deconstruction” contributes to the breakdown and ultimate alienation of the given form. In this instance a form, proportionate to an original local Montanan homestead.
The artworks multi-layered form by way of structural “carvings” evolved from a locally found object, a two-man antique crosscut saw. This relic/reference found at the ghost town, Garnet near Missoula, could be seen to symbolize humanity’s impact upon an environment - to ravage or to cultivate?
Location: Blackfoot Pathways, Sculpture in the Wild, Montana, USA
Material: Douglas Fir
Video by: Starrett Artists film production