Dear Leader I: landscape sculpture May 2006

Here are photographs of a landscape sculpture Dear Leader I, stainless steel and porcelain, 21’6″ by 14′ by height 10’6″, or 6.6 by 14.3 by height 3.20 meters.

As usual, Anna, Abby, and Zerlina (left to right in second photograph down) are shown for scaling purposes.

There are elaborate stories and creation myths associated with all these pieces but let’s just look at them for a while, just a pure visual experience, before wordy narratives take over. As usual, landscape pieces look so much better at the site than in one-eyed, flatland photographs with a dynamic range small compared to the human eye.

Below, Dear Leader I along with Millstones 5 and 6, 2003-2004 (mild steel, diameter 13″8″ or 4.2 meters). At the site, there’s an excellent 3D volume of negative space between these two Millstones, a reading possibly encouraged by Dear Leader’s perspective box.