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January 20, 2012
in Olympic Sculpture Park Richard Serra SAM sculpture Wake weathering steel Seattle Washington USA
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Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010 One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.

Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010

One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

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September 18, 2011
in Martin Puryear sculpture wood form
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Martin Puryear In sheep’s clothing 1996 Des Moines Art Center

Martin Puryear

In sheep’s clothing

1996

Des Moines Art Center

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November 18, 2010
in Richard Serra sculpture photography
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Richard Serra, “Wake” 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010 “One of my earliest recollections… I remember walking the arc of the hull with my father, looking at the huge  brass propeller, peering through the stays.  Then, in a sudden flurry of activity, the shoring props, beams, planks, poles, bars, keel blocks, all the dunnage, was removed, the cables released, shackles dismantled, the come-alongs unlocked. There was a total incongruity between the displacement of the  enormous tonnage and the quickness and agility with which the task was carried out. ” Richard Serra, 1988.   - Serra’s parables of gravity and architecture by  Dave Hickey - page 6 - Weight and Measure Drawings.

Richard Serra, “Wake” 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010

“One of my earliest recollections… I remember walking the arc of the hull with my father, looking at the huge  brass propeller, peering through the stays.  Then, in a sudden flurry of activity, the shoring props, beams, planks, poles, bars, keel blocks, all the dunnage, was removed, the cables released, shackles dismantled, the come-alongs unlocked. There was a total incongruity between the displacement of the  enormous tonnage and the quickness and agility with which the task was carried out. ” Richard Serra, 1988.   - Serra’s parables of gravity and architecture by  Dave Hickey - page 6 - Weight and Measure Drawings.

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August 24, 2010
in Richard Serra sculpture Wake weathering steel Seattle surfaces textures weathering steel human touch
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Wake 2003 Richard Serra  weatherproof steel,  14 x 75 x 46 feet Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington (Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010) Admiring Richard Serra through photographs remembering that all photographs lie. The thing for me about this particular sculpture is the surface textures - a combination of human touch and natural weathering properties of this special steel.  The spatial quality of these pieces is secondary here for me although there is a little hint of a potentially contemplative space. These photographs do not re-present the quality of the experience but do contain elements of the work that I think are important.  Wake 2003 Richard Serra  weatherproof steel,  14 x 75 x 46 feet Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington (Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010)

Wake 2003

Richard Serra 

weatherproof steel,  14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

(Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010)

Admiring Richard Serra through photographs remembering that all photographs lie. The thing for me about this particular sculpture is the surface textures - a combination of human touch and natural weathering properties of this special steel.  The spatial quality of these pieces is secondary here for me although there is a little hint of a potentially contemplative space. These photographs do not re-present the quality of the experience but do contain elements of the work that I think are important. 

Wake, 2003 - by Richard Serra - photograph by Matt Niebuhr, 2010

Wake 2003

Richard Serra 

weatherproof steel,  14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

(Photograph: Matt Niebuhr, 2010)

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