1980 - Little Wave Square

The wave square originated in the 1977 Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and I made a videotape documenting its debut. After Keith Beckley and I made the 29-foot Bumbershoot Wave Square, I had to cut it up and dispose of it because I didn’t have space to store it. Eventually I wanted tabletop-sized wave squares, so I learned how to make a mold to press thin sheets of birch and laminate them to create the wave shaped stem. It was a very tricky process, and by the time I'd finished I had to be satisfied with only five. A collector bought four that I showed at the Erica Williams / Ann Johnson show, and one turned up in my parents' estate. The object has a stained, laminated wood stem and painted head. The head measures 3 5/8" wide, the length is 10" and it stands 3 1/2" high.

Found in the Absent Professor's Cabinet:

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When someone asks me what I do, I'd like to give them a one word answer and then have them say, "Oh, YOU'RE the famous Bill Ritchie!" I'd like to be able to say, "Games" and they would know who I was immediately. “You invented Emeralda! I LOVE that game!”