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October 1988. Granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 36 × 38 × 15 in (91 × 97 × 38 cm).
Private collection, Santa Fe.
East River Go-Round continues the circular language of the Go-Round Series, bringing a sweeping steel arc into tension with two pieces of granite. The large stone appears precariously suspended, its mass countered by the open circle and smaller stone below. Gravity, balance, and visible assembly remain connected to my earlier tensegrity, or Brute Series, while the painted steel and its more graphic character reflect the increasingly expressive direction my work had taken during the 1980s.
The title refers to the East Branch, or East River, of the Sacandaga River that runs through my studio property in Wells, New York. It connects the “go-round” idea of circular movement with the repetitive nature of working in a series—returning to an idea through successive variations. The river adds another sense of movement—flow and continuity—to the circle-and-stone imagery that would develop further in my Sisyphean Circles.
October 1988. Granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 36 × 38 × 15 in (91 × 97 × 38 cm).
Private collection, Santa Fe.
East River Go-Round continues the circular language of the Go-Round Series, bringing a sweeping steel arc into tension with two pieces of granite. The large stone appears precariously suspended, its mass countered by the open circle and smaller stone below. Gravity, balance, and visible assembly remain connected to my earlier tensegrity, or Brute Series, while the painted steel and its more graphic character reflect the increasingly expressive direction my work had taken during the 1980s.
The title refers to the East Branch, or East River, of the Sacandaga River that runs through my studio property in Wells, New York. It connects the “go-round” idea of circular movement with the repetitive nature of working in a series—returning to an idea through successive variations. The river adds another sense of movement—flow and continuity—to the circle-and-stone imagery that would develop further in my Sisyphean Circles.