Guide to the Objects

#21: The Angel of Inerrancy

The Angel of Inerrancy (conveying well-meaning souls to hell), free standing construction, 15’ x 22’ x 8’; large Iron culvert, horse-drawn tedder, wheelbarrow, milk can, black rubber hose, red iron silo pipes, blue glass circles, screens, sand, miscellaneous iron pipes and implements, crystal pitcher, two pumps, timers. When first constructed and installed the Angel rocked intermittently forward and back as water was pumped from the wheelbarrow through the black piping into the milk can, and then after a lengthy pause back again. The rocking movement was intended to convey the long, slow journey of the souls to hell. 2005

#22: The Memory Tree

The Memory Tree, found object; 30’ x 3’ diameter at the ground,  a culvert made of rolled iron, stood on end.  It had, for whatever reason, been partially sliced open and then left to rust on the edge of a field.  The filigree of rust has been gilded.  A monument to memory, public and private, and our attempts to use it and preserve it.  2013

#23: Heron

Heron, found object, bent black iron pipe, 15’, mounted in an iron wheel submerged in the pond, gilded at the tip.  2007

#24: Pond

Pond, a project carried out by the United States Department of the Interior as part of a Fish and Wildlife Restoration Project thanks to the intercession of the Boquet River Association in 1995.

#26: Floating Stone Cone

Floating Stone Cone, floating construction, 7’ above the water line, 10’ diameter; stones mounted on wire lath over a wooden frame on a raft of styrofoam blocks and metal brackets, anchored at the bottom of the pond, 2005

#25: Stone Cone One

Stone Cone One, conical pile of stones. 6’ x 10’ in diameter.  A pile of stones is the oldest and simplest made thing.  It is a pre-tool object requiring only collecting, selecting and stacking, and yet it is capable of carrying out profound and useful functions as for example being a directional marker or a grave. A stone cone is a peculiarly democratic object.  No single stone seems to matter much.  The combination, assembly and placement of the stones create the object.  On the other hand each stone must retain its individuality for the object to be what it is. 
     Making a stone cone float makes us think again.  A floating stone cone is a large, slow joke.  Of course any stone cone is floating, even one on a sea of dirt.                                                   .   The stone cones make historical and geological reference to the larger ancient stone cones nearby named Discovery and Hurricane.  They become part of a family of cones encircling the earth and reaching into the deep past.  2003