Public Art Blogs

Our public art projects are set up as blogs so our friends and colleagues can participate.

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Lighting the Tall Grasses

This tells the story of why I created this blogging website. It is my attempt to get help with lighting the Tall Grasses. If you want to help, please start here and follow the rest of the posts.

One of the issues we always have to deal with is size. The wheat sculptures have to be large enough to become cultural icons but manageable in terms of engineering, installation and budget. And when building on spec, we don't know what kind of environment they will occupy.

Wheat Renders

I first built this wheat form in Fusion 360 intending to send them to the 3d printer. I had to modify the CAD model a bit to get them ready to be rendered for proposals.

Tall Grasses Details

This page gets right down to how these grasses are constructed. It also identifies some of their weaknesses in an attempt to get feedback from friends and colleagues.

Tall Grass Overview

This post outlines the origin of the idea to create very tall grass and some of the issues left to work out.

Onsite Installation

It was another very hot day in August when we installed the Urban Cattails (both sets) at the RYA apartment complex in Richfield. Yes, by the end of the day, we were exhausted

Urban Cattails Assembling & Staining

This was a hot day in August when Lisa Roy and Remo Campopiano assembled the pods onto the stems and stained all the cedar wood. It also when we first got to see our vision take shape for real. Photos by Lisa Roy

Wheat Project Overview

This post talks about the how the wheat idea came about and how were are pursuing it.

Wheat Prototype (16′ tall)

Here we are exploring a 16' version of the Wheat sculpture. One of the best ways to know if it will work is to just do it, down and dirty. You get to see all the issues that need to be resolved.

Sky Box

This is an old idea I was pursuing in the 90's repositioned to be an provocative public-art sculpture. Unfortunately it is on hold until the commissioners can work out some issues with the city.