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Hogpen Hill #1: sculpture installed August 2006

We completed the installation of Hogpen Hill #1 in August 2006.

The piece is stainless steel, 24 feet high, with a weight of about 4,900 pounds.
It was sketched out and mostly constructed during the spring of 2005,
then temporarily installed and studied during the next 10 months,
and then positioned in its final location.
The final location is called Cove 2, which is surrounded by trees and a stone embankment.
(Millstone 8 was installed in nearby Cove 1.)
Cove 2 required several months preparation: cleaning up, regrading, contouring, and planting grass.


The gray and rainy weather provided a good soft light.
Photographs with the butter light of sunrise and sunset will provide very different views,
since the sculpture borrows light.

A history of constructing the piece is at our thread The Levitating Sculpture (and also sculpture theory and practice).









As usual Zerlina (left) and Anna provide scale information; Hogpen Hill #1 is approximately 9 Golden Retrievers tall.

In this picture with the dogs, a Necker Illusion is generated by reading the center vertical of the piece as either coming forward or receding.

-- Edward Tufte












-- Edward Tufte


Immediately above, 4 images of Hogpen Hill #1 with scattered clouds and filtered sunlight, photographed today. The last image in the sequence was made with a 300mm lens, a long lens often used in bird photography, in order to blur the trees in the immediate background.

I recall that such blurring, which here looks like dappled light, is called "boca" (sp?), but my search didn't turn up the definition.

-- ET


B O K E H bokeh BOKEH b o k e h

Thank you. There is almost always someone at this board who can answer any question! I regret my spelling lapse, as complex searches (boca photography macro -"boca -raton" -"boca -grande") turned up, of course, nothing.

The quality of bokeh varies in the Wikipedia reference pictures. The 105mm Nikon Micro (everyone else says "macro," as in a large-scale map = big houses) usually produces good bokeh.

Bokeh is not that far in visual effect from our double-action grindings on the stainless steel, where we're looking for neutral variation that responds gently to the environmental light, as in the second picture from the bottom in the pictures immediately above.

-- ET


This year at the HOW Design Conference the opening speaker was juggler Michael Moschen; and his work reminded me very much of your sculptures. Go to http://michaelmoschen.com/press.html and you can see some of his videos.

-- Tatiana Pechenik (email)


Source: Brian Boucher, "Two Serras for California," Art in America, 2006, 39.





Photos: Jebb Harris, The Orange County Register

Source: Richard Chang, "Richard Serra: Making an artistic connection," Orange County Register, April 23, 2006.

-- Edward Tufte


Hogpen Hill Farms

Our land is named on maps as "Hogpen Hill," and since we're also doing some farming, we call the place "Hogpen Hill Farms."

I was please to learn that Henry Moore's 70-acre estate where he lived and worked for 45 years is called "Hoglands," presumably after its original use.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2091477,00.html

http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=4416&shop=4363

-- Edward Tufte




Threads relevant to sculpture:
Ace and Porta do multimedia
Airspaces
Bird Series
Aluminum and stainless steel; many, many pieces moving in the air.
Bouquet sculpture series--and Walking, Seeing, Constructing
Beginning of Bouquet series (now 7); along with theoretical statement beginning the volume 5 project.
Buddha with Bird Nest: sculpture
Complex sculptural shapes
Dear Leader I: landscape sculpture May 2006
Narrative piece about some mysterious porcelain objects in a stainless steel perspective box.
Dog sculpture (Porta the Portuguese Water Dog)
ET Modern
ET museum/gallery in the Chelsea Art District in New York 2010-2013.
ET show at George Champion Modern Shop
ET gallery show in Woodbury, Connecticut.
Escaping Flatland sculptures
Ten large stainless steel pieces in the landscape generate many views and painted color fields as the sun moves across the sky and the season changes.
Feynman Diagrams, Edward Tufte sculptures and exhibits
The Conceptual and Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams. Art show + 16 page essay.
Flame Theater
Georgia O'Keeffe and Escaping Flatland
Ironstone artworks, torqued steel
Magritte's Smile
Masks Quartet, 2011
bronze casting
Megaliths, Continuous and Silent, Stuctures of Unknown Significance
Stone+air artworks. Scuplture, megaliths
Millstone sculpture series
Massive industrial pieces sorting out circles and light. Redesigning and repurposing scrap from nuclear power plant.
Multiplicity in visual experiences (ET presentation for a museum show)
Nine reviews of ET's Aldrich Museum sculpture show
ET museum show in Connecticut 2009-2010

Open-Ended
Paradox sculptures
Petals 1-3
Aluminum hyperbolic paraboloids in the landscape reflect light and shadow. The pieces move with the contour of the land.
Philosophical Diamond Signs
Philosophical alerts, imperatives, and thoughts about the path past and future.
Rocket Science
~32 feet (10 m) high and ~72 feet (22 m) long, and is constructed from ~48,000 pounds (22,000 kg) of rusting scrap steel
Rocket Science #2 (Lunar Lander)
Rocket Science 3: Airstream Interplanetary Explorer
Sculpture Forgings
Steel forging mounted on wood base. Blacksmithing video.
Sculpture: Negative space studies
Three table pieces; strong positive elements create active negative volumes (the air) to torque. Movies.
Seeing Around: New ET essay published
Skewed Machine
Spring Arcs, an ET landscape sculpture
Four solid stainless steel arcs in the landscape. Long thread, many photographs on meaning, construction, viewing of the piece.
Stainless steel images: anisotropic calligraphy
Big series of engraved 3D anisomorphic images that move with light.
Steel sculptures
Rough, thick, rusting steel, with surface images in the steel's patina.
Table sculptures
About a dozen major table pieces in wood, steel, stainless steel.
The Drawing Center fax show: ET exhibits
The Twigs: Landscape artworks made from steel and air
The beautiful Twig. Steel, 32 feet high, with accompanying thread on reading the piece and the complexities of modeling large 3D objects.
Theater Museum artworks
Tong Bird of Paradise
Towers: a new memorial for 9/11
Visual complexities of light, shadow, perpsective. Perforated stainless steel.
ZZ Smile (Zerlina's Smile)


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