Steel, Turtle bone, Sheet Lead, Wood… Time
8′ x 4′ x 4′
now 6′ x 4′ x 4′
This piece has been with me since my college days, and has gone through many alterations. The ship’s anchor chain I pulled from a California beach in the early 1980’s. The stuffed sea turtle I “forgot” to throw in the dump pile, as I was told to do, when the moving company I worked for in college had the job of moving a U.S. Customs warehouse from one warehouse to another. The limestone was a training excersize that several new hires hand their hands on, and the marble hand is a sample made by my assistant Matthew Palmer as part of a fund raiser for a proposed Holocaust Monument I had been asked to design, which, unfortunately, was never built.
Steel, Turtle bone, Sheet Lead, Wood… Time
8′ x 4′ x 4′
now 6′ x 4′ x 4′
This photo was taken in 2013, and is contemporary as of this writing. The birds and the beasts took a few years to eat everything but the bones, but eventually they succeeded.
Steel, Turtle bone, Sheet Lead, Wood… Time
8′ x 4′ x 4′
now 6′ x 4′ x 4′
This is a shot of the piece as it was originally built, in 1986. I had no indoor storage, and the entire upper section rotted and fell apart. The chain was originally gold-leafed with artificial gold leaf, which clearly doesn’t last like real gold leaf, and the plaster armature under the sheet lead dissolved.
Steel, Turtle bone, Sheet Lead, Wood… Time
8′ x 4′ x 4′
now 6′ x 4′ x 4′
This shot was taken shortly after I installed it in the sculpture garden. This piece looks good all year long. I’ll try to remember to find and post a winter shot.