Wind Catcher, 2014
4’w x 7.5’h x 2.5’d
Bamboo post in plaster, handmade fan blades, camo tarp, tumbleweed, and timing belt mechanism
I created a form to embody the force and flow of wind. This sculpture was made in Wyoming. The landscape I was in (Banner Wyoming), locally called the Snake Hills, were ancient sand dunes, now petrified and grown over with sages and wheat grasses. You can always feel the wind rolling over those hills, and yet the landscape is peppered with oil-pumping rigs, and the occasional fracking rig, which provide a lot of energy for the state.
Something about the landscape spoke to me, and I dreamed of wind energy, which seemed like a cleaner, un-tapped resource. I incorporated the tumbleweed because tumbleweeds rolled across the landscape like mythical creatures of the wind, and a part of the American psychological landscape.
Something about the landscape spoke to me, and I dreamed of wind energy, which seemed like a cleaner, un-tapped resource. I incorporated the tumbleweed because tumbleweeds rolled across the landscape like mythical creatures of the wind, and a part of the American psychological landscape.