Media Used: Painted steel
Description of Piece: Dancing steel dragonfly
Artist's Statement: The pirouette motion spills the wind and allows the dragonfly to dance in low and high winds.
Media Used: Iron trellis, iron gates, plants stones
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Media Used: Wood and paint
Description of Piece: Twenty architectural buildings made of wood.
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Description of Piece: Wizard's cabinet
Artist's Statement: I wanted to create a sculpture that evokes a feeling of magic; to open you up to magic in your every day life. Expect magic! It's all around you!
Media Used: Wood and paint
Description of Piece: Empty plate with poem
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Description of Piece: Twisted magical vine with flying flowers
Artist's Statement: A pathway to a magical land
Media Used: Mixed
Description of Piece: Large concrete bear
Artist's Statement: Inspiration for this piece comes from looking at art during many trips to Mexico combined with my compulsion to pick garbage. Moma Bear began as a discarded treasure I found in someones trash. The bear head was a well used styrofoam target, the skirt was made from recycled re bar. The mosaics were donated by friends' cast off piles of bathroom tiles and broken dishes. Through applications of concrete, mosaics and found objects I hope to transform Moma Bear into Madonna-ness, and give her a new vision.
Media Used: Cob, saplings, & Lyons redstone
Description of Piece: A larger than life-size oven provides protection. Sit inside and feel the calm. Peek thru the peephole to see when the coast is clear for your escape!
Artist's Statement: In this sculpture, Jamie Hart and I are creating a sacred space, a protected space. We tempt your mischievous being by asking you to peek out the tiny “oven door”. We love to dig in the dirt creating playful organic shapes, celebrating the child within us all!
Media Used: Wood, acrylic on canvas
Description of Piece: Portrait painting in a wall cabinet
Artist's Statement: The giant's eyes follow you wherever you are.
Media Used: Mixed
Description of Piece: Inside of a giant head that you enter.
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Artist's Statement: The magic bean arcade is built to amuse.
Media Used: Steel and grass
Description of Piece: Steel and grass spiral that rotates.
Artist's Statement: I envisioned the snake grotto as a dream sequience in the trail. A Dream of things to come.
Media Used: Clay and found objects
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Artist's Statement: Look way up in the clouds see the giant's castle
Media Used: Steel
Description of Piece: Non-objective steel sculpture
Artist's Statement: This is a piece from my series of vertical compositions. Although nonobjective, there seems to be a calm, watchful presence. The steel was obtained from the late Dave Holloway of Armor Steel in Boulder. The arcs were curved C- channel ""drop off"" from a group of door headers Dave built. After his passing it just seemed right not to sand blast the steel. I've left the paint pen order number and ""Armor"" on the upper curved elements as a memorial to him.
Media Used: Acrylic, enamel, polyurethane on steel
Description of Piece: Grain storage tank as the Giant
Artist's Statement: The Giant slowly emerges. More on that later.
Media Used: Mixed
Description of Piece: Concrete goose by me and rock eggs by the Lyons Gap Group
Artist's Statement: The goose is another bird that I just am very fond of and conviently part of the store of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Media Used: natural plant materials
Description of Piece: Foot with toes the size of a person's foot to step into, connected to Infinite Bottom Line. Splined the way I learned in the 80¹s from how indigenous people make their headbands and belts.
Artist's Statement: From my series of foot books that began in 1988 made in handmade paper, interactively installed, makes one feel slipped into a giant foot. We evolve through stepping into them. I began with feet connected by a hand woven tether to force a measured, controlled step. Here our foot in the giant foot leans against a tree trunk, connected to the splined Infinite Bottom Line rising. We experience raising the Bottom Line to an Infinite level of self-sustainability as we opt out of the forced power money neo-con economic Bottom Line. There may be a surprise waiting as we look up into the tree. Tactile fun and serious commitment come together to fit this years Sculpture Trail story line.
Media Used: Wood, rocks, rope, wires and hoops
Description of Piece: Wood, rocks, rope, wires and hoops for your viewing pleasure.
Artist's Statement: Turn, turn, turn.... For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. There is a moment in the story of one's life when each must step up and turn the world. The Story only goes on when we recommit to it.
Media Used: Laminated poem on painted wood, stakes
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Media Used: Metal, gravel: string, yarn, materials from Nature
Description of Piece: Gravel music: metal bowls and pots each filled with some gravel, hanging from a tree, to twirl around and sound the sea. Bird Music: yarn staff music lines intersecting in an opposite tree inserted with birdcall patterns I hear.
Artist's Statement: Drawn to Prescilla Cohan's blue ceramic birds resting in fountain gravel, I heard musics. Here the musics with gravel, birds and poem are between two bracketing trees. Gravel churned in metal bowls make a sea-like sound. The birdsounds began as visual music patterns on staff lines, a score. Coming from my frustration to remember bird calls, I invented a way to reproduce their sounds. In the fountain is my interactive text inspired by concrete poems, to sound out, inextricate ties to time that bind us as we journey through a fairy tale being realized. All these musics I have practiced for years. Churning seas come from performing with my hand made paper instruments. Bird musics I screen print on walls and ceilings. The poems bring us from fear to humor to possibility to bravery to assertion, to transformation, to connectedness, to peace.
Media Used: Sandstone and fused glass
Description of Piece: Lyons red sandstone and fused glass sculpture
Artist's Statement: We've wanted to work together on a project for a long time and the opportunity arrived with the Sculpture Trail. Jack and the Beanstalk and his transformation is suggested in our piece in that with a little heat, stone or sand becomes glass. We all have paths to follow on our journey and often we can't see very far along the way. Entry ways are a great portal to transformation.. Is the portal open or closed? Is the stone an impediment or an embrace? What about the glass?
Media Used: Fabric, yarn and plastic.
Description of Piece: Trail of fabric pieces and threads hanging from trees.
Artist's Statement: This piece, like The Vine Trail, John King asked me to do to carry the storyline forward so he and I talked about the evolution of the "beanstalk" from its incarnation of the Vine Trail to here.
Media Used: Found objects
Description of Piece: plastic bottles and wire cloud like forms
Artist's Statement: I was inspired to build a cloud like form after seeing many burned and smashed bottles on a trip to Mexico. The recycled bottles took on a jewel- like look when held against the sky. The thought of using plastic to make art seemed challenging. I also like to the sound of the plastic as it taps against one another in the wind.
Media Used: Multimedia
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Artist's Statement: The piece that I have prepared for the 2007 Lyons Sculpture Trail is "North American Sycamore, #2," which is a fanciful head with some rather esoteric and hidden implications. Last year's work was built upon a metal-band framework with all natural found materials, sticks, stones, branches from various Lyons-area trees and plants and so forth. This year's work is based upon the same metal-band framework and utilizes a large variety of artistic materials including metal, canvas, papier mache, cardboard, translucent acetate, acrylic structures and acrylic paints and other materials. The adventure of "making art" was the main motivation behind producing this work for this year's trail.
Media Used: Acrylics and gloss on painter's drop cloth
Description of Piece: 5 foot x 5 foot canvas, with crowd scene painted on it, and 4 holes to look through carefully and become part of the crowd that hides you in the same time.
Artist's Statement: When thinking of Jack hiding in the oven from the Giant, I pictured him being on a crowded street instead, with all his fellow streetwalkers, a daylight scene, people going to work or coming from there, large city, some of us hiding easily without effort. Hiding from our real purpose, or even ourselves.
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Media Used: Paint on cement
Description of Piece: Maze with questions
Artist's Statement: In the first two questions, both answers are acceptable and allow you to move forward. You are observing your preferences. But in the third question, only one choice will let you move on. Ultimately we all need to find our own style, and until we find it, we may go round and round copying everyone else. Can you find your own way?
Media Used: Steel, paint, and automotive clear coat
Description of Piece: Steel mayfly spinner pharaoh in pyramid
Artist's Statement: I am not a representational sculptor. My training and lineage are from the abstract, minimalist, nonobjective, and.... arguably, often over intellectualized, obscure, and a bit inaccessible modern art thingie. But.. since I have fished the St. Vrain for three decades, an invitation to exhibit in last year's Sculpture Trail along the river with a ""nature theme"" brought mayflies flashing across my mind.... These are wonderful bugs that live in the St. Vrain... and this is a tribute to them. For 364 days this bug was sub-aquatic, grubbing around the rocks under water. On his final day he swam to the surface, shed his wetsuit and took wing. He found a ""special someone"" and mated in midair. They deposited their eggs in the river, expired, and fell to the river as ""spinners."" While falling he has this final thought................. maybe.
Media Used: Cable, wood, elastic, felt, metal pails
Description of Piece: (Installation) from a cable hang down chalkboard, many elastic strings tied around chalk, a few felt erasers, 2 pails of water. Pull 'n play, draw your dreams on a large chalkboard.
Artist's Statement: This is from my series pull 'n play in the universe made at first in the 90's with my fingerprint cut into a spiral to pull out of my book SuperSkyWoman representing the taking of responsibility for what we touch in the universe. This idea became a parallel pull'n play installation for drawing inspirational ideas on an entire wall. Here it becomes more interactive yet as people and weather both do the drawing and erasing. The idea is that at the end of the convoluted beanstalk encounter one is finally liberated to invent ones dreams in concert with Nature.
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Media Used: Metal
Description of Piece: Abstract metal chiming harp.
Artist's Statement: Collaboration in helping the sculpture trail.
Media Used: Mixed
Description of Piece: Weavings made of surveyor's tape, fabric, yarn, plastic, poly rope, manila rope, sisal, jute and natural objects.
Artist's Statement: I don't have a specific medium but as I am in the field of the sculpture trail discussions ideas arise. I had a vision for this piece at this location, so we worked it into the storyline-it just ended up being last and being an interesting transition from making The Vine Trail and The Thread Trail, artistically and medium-wise. Again, I like the accessibility of the medium(s)-things you might find lying around a sewing room or garage become art. What's in your shed? Does it have a story to tell?
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