Completion

Above is a detail of Quartz Destination below. I planted a variety of ajuga ground cover all around it.

The image above is a detail of the sculpture below called Summer Tower 1. It was just bought to be situated in a garden. The garden designer Kathrine Neville selected it for a roof top garden on the new Science Center in Hartford, CT. The building was designed by Cezar Peli. It opened this May. I'm going Wednesday to begin installing. Those honey dipper like things dangle in the breeze. Hartford is really the windiest city and they will be dangling alot.

Summer Tower 1
11' 8" x 14x15

Some days of dryish weather to paint this sculpture called Quartz Destination. There is much more to do yet but the green glow is more than I was asking of that paint!

A little conversation on the left

about the second flush of Shiitake. Those two on the left were beautiful and delicious.

Things are made in pieces

In 1992 I found these words below and can't remember where there from but have refered to them often.

The Temple belonging to the Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) Buddhist sect,had been destroyed by American bombers during World War II, and Kiyotani's father, also a monk, had reconstructed the building. Kiyotani was to restore the artistic features. "He was very relaxed about the prospect," says Bartlett.(Jennifer Bartlett is an artist)

Bartlett went to meet the monk and see the temple. Then she traveled all over Japan looking at ceilings. "what if you don't like it ?" she asked Kiyotani. "Everything new looks strange for the first 200 years," he responded,"and then it looks fine."

Quartz Night has solar lights in the roof that illuminate it in a mysterious way but so far it is challenging to photograph. So here it is under flash.

So much that appeares solid and permanent also looks as though it

is in motion and only passing through. Maybe it's me.

Quartz Night is the first of a series that will make up a village. They're creatures of habitation. They are hidden some what in tall grasses. There is a path that brings a person physically closer to them. I don't know how many more there will be but this one is calling for company. There is a large quartz bolder at the bottom and a vein of quartz pebbles that drift from the bolder to the top. The roof is made of galvanized sheet steel and the entire steel structure is painted aluminium.