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.