Wood Home for Dear Friends
Last week I put a wood home nto the truck and brought it to
the home of my dear friends Diane and Joel. Diane is a potter of some renown, Joel an excellent painter and sculptor.
We had a fun time loading the home. It is one of two, and at 3x5x4, together they contain a cord of wood.
“Air Over Water”, Korea, Haslla Museum, 2009
I just got this rather interesting (I think) image from the restaurant at Haslla Museum, overlooking the piece I made there last month.
Must admit, as much as I love my cooking and our beautiful kitchen, I seriously miss the five star Korean meals there.
Write-up in “Artscope” magazine.
Linda Chestney spotted “Ground of Being” at the Mill Brook Gallery in Concord, New Hapmshire, and included it in the September issue of “Artscope”.
Here’s what she said:
“Not to be missed is “Ground of Being”, a primal, evocative stone piece by Karl Saliter of Cornwall, CT, whose work appears in galleries and sculpture gardens worldwide. Something about this piece just makes you smile. Nearly 100 steel rods reach skyward from a base of stone to a height of three or more feet, with most well over seven feet high. Every one of them “blooms” with a large, flat rock the size of a pancake at their apex. To add to the whimsical presentation, in a breeze they sway lazily, calling us to enjoy the day. While Saliter appreciates the playful quality of (some of) his works, he describes his relationship to stones as reverential. As he creates these pieces that connote growth or motion, he sees himself as serving the stones.”
Bravo to Artscope, and many thanks to Mill Brook Gallery, and Linda Chestney!
Haslla Museum Installation, Korea, August, 2009.
Just in Inchon, preparing to fly home. Here are photos from my work in Korea.
Wrapping it up in the studio yesterday, almost ready for a lift.
First Backhoe arrives to save the day, before being sent home: sculpture apparently too heavy. It was kind of fun watching the backhoe lifting itself up onto three wheels, trying to grab the piece.
Second backhoe, stronger, arrived shortly after.
Also got spanked.
Crane time.
I love cranes. I love cranes and Bobcats. Leaving from my beautiful temporary studio to the site:
Nice Site! To flip the piece, it became important to balance it on its nose.
I hadn’t thought to build for that contingency: glad it held.
Time to head home.
New Cube to be Treed on Earth Day
I was very happy to hear from Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, WI, that they are going ahead with my desire to have a tree planted in this cube form I built at a residency there earlier this month.
A child will plant the tree, as the secret door I built into the cube can only fit a child. The kid will be whoever wins an essay contest, and they’ll get a small sculpture into the bargain.
I’m very excited to see leaves peeking out from the stones in the coming years!
Just completed Cube to get Tree planted inside this April
Photo courtesy of Peninsula School of Art.
Wow.
I just got an email from Keith Tomlinson at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. He sent these two images of a piece moved there last Fall, after a show in Charlottesville, VA. I hadn’t seen where they put it, or how it was installed. I love this!
New York Times Write Up!
The New York Times just wrote up the Luther Barn Residency and the Wassaic Project. An installation I did with my friend Joel Schapira is in the slideshow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/28/arts/20090729_WASSAIC_SLIDESHOW_7.html
The canoe below is installed, it will be part of a collaboration in the same show with Benjamin Stabler. I titled it “Emergency Escape Vehicle”.
Luther Barn Residency 2009
Here is the site for the Escape Vehicle.
Today, I’m preparing to complete a summer residency at the Luther barn, for the Wassaic Project.
http://www.wassaicproject.com/info.html
It is a beautiful place to make art, and I’ve been doing it with beautiful people.
My partner Terri Moore is doing an installation with multiple clay forms and waxed fabric.
Terri rocking the Luther Barn.
I collaborated on an installation with Joel Schapira called “Don’t Duck and Don’t Cover”. Featuring ancient elementary school chairs and a fallout shelter sign, it is a response to the “Duck and Cover” drills, and the unreality of being told that you could protect yourself from the bomb by hiding under your desk. Joel sent me this link after we finished, of Lewis Black saying what we said in a different voice:
The Luther Barn was used as an auction site, and livestock were kept in stalls, then brought down a chute to be sold. The desperation of what an animal in a stall might feel was on my mind for much of my time visiting the location. I am now finishing a canoe on wagon wheels, “Escape Vehicle”, which I will place by the stalls, at the beginning of a corridor leading away from the sale chute.
There are horses!!!!
The location is an amazing place, Eve and Bowie are doing great work here.
I love this place!!!!!
"Escape Vehicle" in process.
“Making Money”: Installation with Pete and Jeremy
Installing this piece for the Pittsfield, MA “Art and Industry” outdoor sculpture show was a refreshingly fun day, where things going right met strong coffee. At one point, sitting in a bench in Great Barrington on the trip home, watching the world spin by, we were the right kind of happy.
Making Money
Here is a new piece, an 8′ dollar bill described in stones, which I’m making for an “Art and Industry” show in Pittsfield, MA.
