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cory - 2005-01-07 17:20:07 Someone used to make odd signs and drawings and post them on staves in a yard near the Treasure Mart. Sort of religious, sort of political, always weird. Does that still happen?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-07 19:29:49 Cool--thank you Cory, for digging that up. Interesting. Raymond, there's a yard near the TM that's packed with stuff of all description, highlighted by the old-time friendly-policeman plywood cutout which has been stolen, unfortunately--but I haven't seen signs there in the last couple of years.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-07 19:41:06 I do wonder how he made the structure in the picture--those concrete logs are nice and round, not flat-sided the way they'd be if he cast them in a trench in his yard, and I wonder how he attached the crosspieces to the main log, and just manipulated all this stuff in general--it's darn heavy and not terribly easy to work with. Old Sears catalogs used to offer poured-concrete and concrete-block house kits [pictured: 1908 catalog]. Yep, you could order a complete house. I bet that'd be a pretty good building material, though I'm not sure I'd want a poured-concrete ceiling over my head day and night. * * * * * * * * * * * * cory - 2005-01-07 21:41:29 I know that for some of the sculptures he used some reinforcing metal, though I'm not sure about the piece in the picture. Some of it he molded by hand, too. The exterior surfaces of most of the pieces aren't smooth like they'd been casted. There are some pyramid-shaped raised strawberry beds in the middle of the yard that he basically built up with a trowel and nothing else. It all seemed pretty unreal.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-07 22:02:20 It is unreal. In the picture the reinforcing metal is visible in the banker figure, whose right arm has crumbled. One wonders at the obsessive persistence needed to create all these creations.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2005-01-08 13:05:11 I wouldn't call it obsession, I'd call it art. This guy's art; which, as you say, is creative. But I would agree that one might call the "need" to do art obsessive.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2005-01-08 13:06:34 Were it not for that particular obsession, we'd have very little art.* * * * * * * * * * * * cory - 2005-01-08 13:44:34 He was definitely driven. In an effort to discourage townsfolk from sitting on his fence and making fun of him while he worked, he installed upward-pointing iron railroad spikes all along the top rail. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-01-08 13:48:12 That's a good distinction, Addiann--thank you. And Cory, what was it like being there in person? Did you have a favorite part of the G. of E.?* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |
