2014 Sculpture in the Garden Preview
Age of Exploration Rocket (photo 2)
Wes Horn Age of Exploration Rocket
Assortment Of Mosaic Garden Columns
Martha Jones Assortment Of Mosaic Garden Columns
Little Green Soldiers (communicator)
Steven Allen Little Green Soldiers
Snow White and the Seven Redwoods
Joe Bologna Snow White and the Seven Redwoods
Sus Scrofa Domesticus (With Tire)
Chris Kanyusik Sus Scrofa Domesticus (With Tire)
Little Green Soldiers (seeker)
Steven Allen Little Green Soldiers
Lisa Jetonne Between Folded Cliffs More than sixty hollow, handbuilt ceramic forms in more than forty colors and in three different shapes and sizes represent the endangered Coastal Sage Scrub and Marine Chaparral environment. Adapted to sandstone soils, and surviving on fog drip in an otherwise arid coastal desert, the mounded forms of these plants fill ochre ravines and valleys that drape like pleated earth in folds from the Point Looma peninsula plateau down to the sea. National Park visitors drive through this vegetation, which from the road appears to be a sea of sea of brown or green (depending on the season). But up close, walking through the same vegetation, it is an explosion of color. During the 3 months of my NPS art residency, I regularly hiked in to take reference photos and make color charts. After returning to my studio I blended underglazes to match the colors. The end result is that each of the abstracted leaf or petal forms in this sculpture represents a color I found in those fields of green and brown.
White Breasted, Yellow Headed Amazon
Mary Bayer White Breasted, Yellow Headed Amazon
Age of Exploration Rocket (photo 1)
Wes Horn Age of Exploration Rocket
Lisa Jetonne Tribe Discarded ammunition shells: steel, brass, aluminum, chrome, copper. Thousands of casings collected from gun ranges; washed, dried, and sorted into categories according to size and type of metal. Affixed to a plow disc. Yearning for affiliation, we are social beings, most attracted to others whom we believe are like ourselves. Like social wasps who construct nests similar to this structure, we cluster in groups of needful belonging, yet as humans we refused to be defined by merely one group, one belief...until one belief becomes so divisive that cohesion fails. This is the status of the gun debate in America.