The Twigs: Landscape artworks made from steel and air

Larkin’s Twig

In our sculpture fields, with visiting sheep.

Inset: ET with Larkin’s Twig, first in what is now a series.

This piece is 32 feet or 10 meters tall.
With 99%+ air by volume,
it has a lightness,
a non-monumental quality,
a large presence.

It is about airspace, torqued steel lines, shadows.

Views looking up to sky at the joinery, with its torquing calligraphy moving in 3-space:

A test installation of the second (30 feet high, legs reshaped) Twig at Hogpen Hill Farms.

This is the Aldrich Twig, shown for 9 months in the sculpture garden at

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; it is now in a northern California private collection.

Three Twigs, 2012, steel and air, approximately 300 x 70 x 30 feet, or 90 x 30 x 9 meters,
in the snow at Hogpen Hill Farms. Multiple Twigs create complex airspaces both within
and between the Twigs.

This video is also available on YouTube and Vimeo

Below, the piece Two Twigs,

generating complex airspaces between the two,

as well as the usual Twig internal airspaces

Three-dimensional calligraphy in the snow and against the sky, all for free because the piece is outdoors. Note bird silhouette below.

Above, a scale model, constructed for my show at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, shows the Twig location (along with little statues of the artist and welder).

The idea is to do whatever it takes to learn about the artwork and its context: photographs, scale models, full-size mockups, digital models. Here is Larkin’s Twig installed at The Aldrich:

Larkin’s Twig, a day’s shadows in an amazing time-lapse video, which confirms once and for all that the Earth rotates.

This video is also available on YouTube and Vimeo