An old crate packed with 4 framed prints, 1000 coffee cup lids, some sleeves and odds an ends. on top of the crate is a box with the sleeves from Sticks Straws Sleeves and Lids, my show that was in january, re stacked in sections to be assembled next week at the McColl. here is a nice detail of a giant tupperware container with the lids that formerly comprised the wall piece in Sticks Straws Sleeves and Lids, also on their way to being remade into a new wall piece next week.
Tomorrow I head off to begin working on what will be the final installment of the “Have Sticks Will Travel World Tour”. After spending the day laying out and setting up the final show in the gallery at The McColl Center in Charlotte, I will hop off to Seattle to install the penultimate piece for the tour. It will be interesting to split between the two, as the thinking for each is a bit different. For the Bumbershoot piece I am following the rules of the tour as it were, making new commissioned pieces built in situ during a fixed time on the ground. For the McColl Center I am steering more towards encapsulating a little bit from all the previous incarnations. For the first time I will try and capture everything I have learned and made from the past 18months. It will be nice since the McColl space gives me two rooms to work across allowing for some separation between the works that will be there. But as with all the work in this series half the joy is discovering new things about the space I can only learn by spending an extended amount of time working in it. Speaking of which I will be working on site at the McColl from Sept 2-Sept 10 so stop by if you are in the Charlotte area.
On a separate note I am very excited that my piece Iced Beverage Basket was installed last week at the University of West Georgia as part of their inaugural outdoor sculpture show, you can see more images here.