What does the sculpture look like?
The piece is a steel sculpture – in the artist’s words, a “tall, playful gestural sculpture that dances in space like a figurative and architectonic three-dimensional poem. It holds the site with a strong physical presence. It is, however, designed with a human scale interaction in mind. The viewer can lean, sit, lay or climb on the piece; they can be cradled by it or simply walk around it and look…” the pieces includes “references to flora and fauna, books, farm machinery, the human figure and harvesting. There are forms that echo the base of the post office columns and simultaneously imply inflatable inner tubes the sort used for play on the water. The sculpture is essentially an abstract response to the town, the site and the people with whom it will share a home. It is meant to be a celebration of life form energy and spatial dynamics in a physical world.” The sculpture will stand approximately 15 feet tall and appear to stretch 15 feet in every direction from the central core. The
