Category: sculpture

a los aficionados

words about our fraught body beautiful
boom
sky in spring egg blue
struggle passion
matadors and gravity
baseballs flying straight pure natural
touching
nobody nothing but here

from the playground at the city at sunrise
(the orioles played to no one once in 2015 after freddie gray was murdered by police for no apparent reason)

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huge aqua pearl reflecting two turtles
floating between toss and whack
counting days
rose peach mortar brick iced in early sun
floating over creamy mud
street in bloom
bronze wings lift flyer running
on crests of waves
marking days
magnetic portal curtain of water
dark gray filament out of orange pink soaring rock
valley in mountain
cast into grimace stabbing metal spectrum twisting
misery into laughter
shaping days
white plum blossoms preserved
resting cratered in cobalt melting half life
snow in blue space

museum at sunrise, center street from cathedral street, baltimore

(the walters art museum applied a creative commons zero: no rights reserved license to its digital images in 2011)

soundteller

ocean distills in drips of
wood brass steel animal vibrating
as the teller felt
warmth and light in dark
shape
islands into whales
seahorses into mares into colts
birds and fire
notes dying dancing step
turn toward
mountains diving down into sea
shifter
running with tiger soaring walls
flickering cave

sculpture and symphony hall at sunrise, preston and howard streets, baltimore

(marin alsop began leading the baltimore symphony orchestra in 2007)

where is the bridge

pictures and stories are windows in walls i don’t see past
a black mirror
warm blood on skin yellow white black
someone washing away toward a vast ocean
i navigate by echo

red black yellow white at sunrise
(the reginald f lewis museum of maryland african american history and culture opened on president and pratt streets in 2005)

shape passion tract

who is aluminum eyed and spinning around
seeing with their heart
beating and tattered
rising to come and go in blue sky
spinning around beating
through needless constructs of race sex gender attraction
to fill the room
briefly
booming
laughter

intersecting silhouettes at sunrise
(jonathan borofsky installed male/female in front of penn station in 2004)

one half million

humans in society
cotton wool stories waver bunting flying high in wind sun rain
individual community environment
passing copper electricity
toward people palace of trust
sparrows on any flag rendered colorless

baltimore passage at sunrise
(in 2001 flag house courts, the last of our public housing high-rises, was demolished to be replaced by 338 units of housing, 20,000 sf of new and refurbished retail space, and green space, including baltimore passage at lombard and albermarle)

on the drawing board

inside the spinning globe
of blue kevlar with lasersequined bursts of iridescent refection
sixteen limbs turn four perpetual super gears
titaniachained to eight selfsteering spikeretracting aquaterra paddlewheels
whirring in labyrinthian timecrystaled lubricant
that mists sucroprotein for kinetinauts
suspended in competition

vionary art museum at sunrise
(the american visionary art museum-hosted, lemans-started east coast kinetic sculpture race championship was first held in 1999)

the movie party

in a post industrial city sixteen car lot between a three story commercial rowhouse and a four story garage among dry cleaners and metal clubs and pricey restaurants a masquerade of merchants generals sailors steelworkers storytellers healers and survivalists mingle in costumes from around north america and the world in front of a mural in brick and mortar as it begins to move change speed up slow down darken explode clarify and fade. they chat orate gesture swoon and watch to understand what is dying and what is being born but agree on a definitive statement with an unexpected twist

movie house at sunrise
(the maryland film festival, after fits and starts under different titles spanning almost thirty years, began in 1999 with the charles theater as the venue, after an opening screening at the senator)

really big show

singing strutters drift in from deep ocean
whistling stomping
squealing plucking
barking blowing
chuckling serenading
wailing swirling
in blue orange black white
gathered separate focused diffused
sculpting color
windows doors poles trees cars cobbles frame
water flowing exploded fading
shops steps
assembling arranging
out of unseen sayers seers
neighboring culturing
pause
play
flying in timelight

fell street at sunrise
(the creative alliance started out as the fells point creative alliance from margaret footner’s café on fell street in 1995)