I must be a public artist. I work in public, and I capitalize on the drama of building. |
My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees. |
My perspective on public art is that it needs to be site specific - it needs to fit its site, |
Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit. |
The idea of developing the grounds so there's a sculpture park where people can have conversations with artists is great. People talked with me while I was working, and that gave them a real sense of the work ethic you have to have to be an artist. Just seeing someone physically making art is really educational. |
the Legislature passed three different, conflicting versions that address when an abusing child addresses another child, and abuse has taken place. |
There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph. |