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Description:
On the lawn in front of a school where are taught the techniques
of landscaping, I was asked to create an artwork that would become
constraints through which the students would have to manage with
plants, shrubs, flowers, and stone. When I usually create works
with the participation of people, in this particular occasion
I will let people intervene after my work will be completed.
Not wanting my sculpture to become a paint-by-number area, I
nevertheless need to offer a general blueprint to the students
interventions for the years to come.
So I am proposing a Solar Dial, the size of the lawn. A pink
granite monolyth will be topped with an oblique tube to be the
style to draw shade over the ground. No specific marker will
point the hours: this task will be the student's. On the monolyth,
though, sandblasted drawings will help find the correct points
for precise hour lines.
For late hours of the day, four flat granite blocs will indicate
the hours. Along two of these plates Austrian Pine trees will
be planted to become Gluttonous Trees (refer to that section).
They will sum up the hours of the days in their bark, as if they
were to become the memories of the days passing by. On top of
the plates, a kind of comic strip sandblasted in the granite
will illustrate the evolution of the trees for the future, the
tree trunks warping their cylindrical shape to adapt to the obstacle.
Dimensions:
Gnomon height: 5,300 m
Ground surface: 9 ,000 x 14,400 m
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Gourmand trees
