Still standing strong in the landscape

 

In 2017 my sculpture Buttress Root was installed on the banks of Little Yabba Creek. The sculpture was selected to provide a canvass for poems about the landscape including the few remaining large trees with buttress roots. The piece is 2m high and 4m long and made from 10mm thick aluminium. The poems were CNC routed into the flat sheets before they were rolled into the trunk and sinuous root forms. The concrete foundations ate buried 1.5m into the ground!!! 

On Friday Fiona and her dad had to return home to Maleny from Noosa via Kenilworth because of the closure of the highway when a bridge was damaged. The trip home meant Fiona would cross Little Yabba Creek so I asked if she would stop and take a few photos of the sculpture as I wanted to see how it was holding up. Because the sculpture is installed on the flat near the creek it can be subjected to flooding as well as dealing with folk climbing on it etc.

As you can see from Fiona's photos Buttress Root is standing strong and still shining on after 9 years in the open.

Following are a series of images of the work from a few different angles 

Some of the signage informing the public about the sculpture.

We think a bird has found an alternate use for the brochure holder.

Looking towards the Mary River; and the canopy of trees. Little Yabba Creek feeds into the Mary River.

One finished, one progressing

 

As you can see from the above and following photos I have finished one of the posts I been working on. It looks good with the patinated copper bowl on the top - though it could be used without the bowl.

Following are a couple of process-progress photos.

I have also made quite good progress with the taller destination post - some progress photos follow.

Fiona and I are doing a lot of tasks to do with the closing down of our public studio and transitioning to smaller home based studios. Lots of sorting, selling, giving away and moving those pieces we will be keeping to continue our work. This means there is not a lot of time for creating - but we grab the moments we can.