LOWELL BAKER on sun 14 jan 01
Over the past two months, but mostly during my Christmas Break,
I have completed throwing 1000+ tumblers. Why, you ask.....
These thousand pieces will be displayed as a single unit of 100 per
layer and ten layers high. The "glasses" are between four and
seven inches tall so the stack will be about sixty inches high. The
layers will be separated by sheets of Plexiglass. All of this is
contained in a welded steel frame in the form of a house. The
house measures 4'X5'X7.5'.
The title of the piece is "Within this House". It has to do with the
diversity of a population and the fact that diverse population literally
live within a house, weather it be a classroom, city, state, country
or the world.
The reason I am sharing this with all of you is that I am now looking
for exhibition venues for the piece. It will open in Montgomery,
Alabama on February 22, 2001. I have two other opportunities to
show the piece over the next year but I would like to arrange others.
The piece began last October when I was demonstrating cylinders
for my students. During that time I was also having a lot of
conversations with my students about diversity issues. Over the
course of the next week or so I threw about a hundred tumblers
and gave each of my students one. While the tumblers were
sitting on the shelf waiting to be distributed I noticed they became
a representation of a population. The students would then select
one of these pieces out of the population for their own. Their
reason for each selection interested me. Some wanted the one
that would hold the most beer while others were interested in color
and form. At that point I talked to a few people about my idea for
the project but I was not sure I wanted to commit to a thousand of
anything. In other words I was not sure I wanted to tell you
(CLAYART).
I am now glad I continued. I have had a blast with this project.
Through the process I became more aware of the uniqueness of
each of us. Anyway, if you are interested in such a piece I would
like to show it. I will have photographs after the exhibition in
Montgomery.
I am now packing the piece to travel to Montgomery. It will be
contained in over thirty plastic crates and completely fill my 12 ft
trailer.
Thanks for your time. Contact me off list.
W. Lowell Baker
The University of Alabama
Wbaker@woodsquad.as.ua.edu
Stephen Cappelli on fri 2 mar 01
Lowell, sorry, but no image came through, but as someone who has seen the
piece I can attest to all that have space they should contact Lowell to see
if he would let them show it.... a very good installation piece.......
Stefano in the GUMP, where the lightening is giving a nice light show
----- Original Message -----
From: LOWELL BAKER
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: 1000 ice tea glasses
> I just received this image of the piece I installed in Montgomery
> Alabama last week. I have talked about the piece on the list so I
> thought I would share it with you.
>
> The title of the work is "Within this House". The subject is an
> exploration of diversity of a population. It is made up of 1008
> individual wheel thrown glass forms and a welded steel house form.
> Each layer of glasses is separated by a layer of Plexiglass. It
> only took five hours to install the piece.
>
> I am still looking for additional exhibition venues for the piece.
>
> Thanks to Arlene Cason for the photo.
>
> W. Lowell Baker
> The University of Alabama
>
>
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LOWELL BAKER on fri 2 mar 01
I just received this image of the piece I installed in Montgomery
Alabama last week. I have talked about the piece on the list so I
thought I would share it with you.
The title of the work is "Within this House". The subject is an
exploration of diversity of a population. It is made up of 1008
individual wheel thrown glass forms and a welded steel house form.
Each layer of glasses is separated by a layer of Plexiglass. It
only took five hours to install the piece.
I am still looking for additional exhibition venues for the piece.
Thanks to Arlene Cason for the photo.
W. Lowell Baker
The University of Alabama
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