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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Concentrating Deeply Today
Of course I have to figure out how to best do this in 1000 words or less...oh - heck - no problem for me...brevity is my middle name...yep...
I know what I'll talk about today....I will share with you a different idea I have for a public art project (it isn't something created for a specific call like the one I have to concentrate on today).
One day - back in 2002 or so - a very funny thought for a sculpture occurred.,.you know - it came from where ever inspiration comes from...and I just happened to be listening. I sculpted this thought then and saved the clay sculpture all these years.
In the last year, I re-sculpted it as a maquette for a public art sculpture. I altered the original sculpture to be more the in style I have today for horse sculpture...but it is similar in title and thought.
It's called Horse-In-A-Round ©.
Just as an aside, and you may already know this about my work, but - one of the things about horses (and especially my horses - wild and barefoot and carefree) is, they are the metaphor - to me - of a joyful human spirit!
You who are collectors of my work maybe feel that about them too, as many of you have never had a real horse or even have much of an interest in horses.
Anyway....so - here is this crazy sculpture of a horse in the middle of a summersault (something a horse really couldn't do - but something a happy human could do!) and his body is circular (in a round...yes?) The day I imagined this sculpture - the thought of it was so fun... I laughed out loud! :) Good thing no one else was in the room...
I apologize about these photos I took. They do illustrate beautifully WHY I have professional photos taken of my work most of the time.
Remember now, these are photos of the maquette...a small version or model of what a large sculpture might look like. The finished large sculpture would not be white or made from paper clay...the finished public art sculpture would be bronze or aluminum and would have one of the beautiful patinas my work has....
Ta-Da! Horse-In-A-Round...get it??
hahahahaha!
Around the base are the words: Horse•In•A•Round - and the letters are constructed so humans can walk up the letters and get on the base with the sculpture - and interact with it if they wish.
How fun for a piece of public art! It could be anywhere!
Also on the base is a right-side-up horseshoe (for good luck of course) where, inside the horse shoe, can be the image of a symbol or logo for a city or place.
Walking up to the letters, people would walk over these handprints and signatures of everyone who contributed to the funding of the project. (I think that it's a nice thing to do...thank the funders of public art this way. It is something that will always be part of the work and something that their children and grandchildren can see.) So the letters and city or place logo would say: Horse•In•A•Round in (for example) Las Vegas ...or Horse•In•A•Round at Churchill Downs.
'Course - the proposal for the upcoming public art project I am currently pondering won't be for Horse-In-A-Round...because, somehow, the description of the project sounds a bit more low key...although - I could be wrong about that.
What I am thinking to propose for the public art for the call I'm pondering today is Okaga, the South Wind ! He is a beautiful sculpture at 19 inches high...and I think he would be even more beautiful 10 to 12 -FEET- high!
Can you just imagine it??? He is just so dignified and proud and there's just so much action in him with his upraised foot and his mane and tail blowing in the wind! I look at him and see: G - l - o - r - ious ! What a wonderful wild boy he is.
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| Okaga - the South Wind from the Lakota Winds series |
I sure would appreciate that huge! Thank you :)
'Til tomorrow!
~Alex
Monday, June 15, 2015
Monday, June 15th 2015
WoW. It's been awhile since I've posted, yes? It happens. Life. The list of things to do gets so long that something falls off it...right off the edge. ________________B
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So. What's been going on? Well. Lets see.
More ranch fencing, gardening projects, 3 colds, 1 round of anti-botics, a vacation, some family happenings, a couple of new calves, rain, rain, and more rain, home improvements, a new building for horses, ah. Horseback riding lessons. The highlight of every week. I remembered something I had forgotten from when I was much younger.
I am completely happy when I am on the back of a horse. Completely and totally.
I am very happy in the presence of most any living being, really. I love to sculpt them, true. But that act is once removed from being with them, interacting with them. I love when my cat is in my lap and she's purring and I can look at her fuzzy face and see each single hair on her nose. It's a wonder.
In church on Sunday the sermon was about (among other things) presenting ourselves one way but behaving another. The number of sermons we've had for these last months about drawing the circle wider have been many but as our guest pastor pointed out, then on Monday we tend to fall back into old ways of being divisionary, exclusionary, because we believe we know what is right and those who agree with us are wise and those who don't are fools...obviously. That the opposite of Love is not Hate, it's Fear.
I think we listen to that fear through the voice in our heads. Everyone has that voice inside their heads. It's funny to me that when we're listening to it, or speaking from it we say, I say, "I'm just thinking." This is the chattering voice. It's shrill sometimes, it's self-righteous sometimes, or jealous, or well...it's giving voice to many variations of fear. It really isn't thinking. Bad enough it is when contained in our heads. Much worse if words make it audible to others, if actions make it felt.
I'm not out among others very often. I stay home and there's a lot to do at our little ranch even if I'm not sculpting. But that voice, my own inside my head, causes a lot of trouble for me just in the company of myself. Much of the time it's full of itself and thinks fame is "the ticket" to what will make it feel good. I know that isn't true. The wish for that comes from fear. Fear of being unimportant.
Part of my (at least) one prayer to God every day is to make me the type of person he created me to be.
Little's Voice says "What is it? I WANNA BE A BIG IMPORTANT ___________!!" (fill in the blank)...Little doesn't much care what goes in the blank...Little has Middle Child Syndrome...but not in a good way.
"Listen Little," (yes, I give this part of me a good talking to on a regular basis) I say, "I love you and you are an important part of me but Shut Up." and then I pray. If Little chatters while I'm praying I'll never get to Amen...so hopefully Little does shut up.
"Lord Jesus, I want to do what you would have me do- what ever is my soul's work. How can I learn what that is? How do I know if I do that already?" Mostly what I want to know is this. Am I on the right track?
When do I get in trouble? When do I get off track? When I don't listen to God and I listen to that trouble maker in my head. It says things like "I don't deserve to be treated like that." "I don't want to do that today." "I want to do that." "I wish __________." "I need _________." "I hate it when ________."
Shut up. Shut UP. SHUT UP!!
"Make a list every day."
"Give each your full attention."
"You will know what to do and when it is time to do it."
"That's it."
He never chatters. I love that.
My wish for you today:
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