1964 - Birds and Stones, aka"Flight"

As a senior in college I created this sculpture for a class assignment. I wanted to create a sense of flight. I made the birds out of light oak and mounted them on a base of cedar blocks with hand carved, burned and burnished surfaces. After my senior show I couldn't take the sculpture with me. The director at the library - where I'd had a part time job - agreed to keep it on display in a reading room. When their new library was built, the old library was converted into an office building and they put my sculpture in the main entrance. It sat next to a Coke machine. Forty-three years later we liberated my sculpture and returned to the family collection. Its approximate size is 54" X 30" X 27" and it's been on loan to Central Washington State University since 1964.


Snapshot taken in 2007 of the Sculpture in Barge Hall at CWU, Ellensburg, Washington.

The Absent Professor's Cabinet at RIISMA has these to read:

Marvelous artist stamp:
Flight of 1964

Before he composes his new stamp titled "Flight 1964," the artist comments on the process unfolding before him on his PC.
He taps the words of an MIT architecture professor as a template to explain what makes his stamp a cyber art work and an electronic stamp,

A Story only A cyber artist could love:
Taking your images all the way to the outer limits

He taps commands with his fingers and files change to other types, arranged in a new composite, tuned to different contrasts and tones and given new formats.
His mind is full of visions; describing a new kind of artistic work, he's in the cybernetic age.