Friday, October 16, 2009

A New Commission and a Museum Exhibit

I was just awarded a commission for Terre Haute's Hux Cancer Center. Over 160 people applied for this $42,000.00 commission.

The sculpture is entitled "Light of Hope and Healing" and is composed of an adult man, adult woman, little boy and little girl
standing atop a pedestal of black granite raising their hands toward a lighted sphere. The granite represents cancer and all the negative emotions that accompany it; fear, despair, hopelessness. The lighted sphere symbolizes the positive emotions which help us overcome cancer; hope , joy and courage.

Don and I were invited to submit work to 2 exhibits at the Ownensboro Museum of Fine Art in Owensboro,KY. The two exhibits are entitled Holidaze, which is a gallery exhibition and Holidazzle which is geared more as a craft exhibit with more affordably priced works. To move the work we rented a Ryder truck. It has a lift gate which made moving the work much,much easier.
Ely is getting loaded into the Ryder truck. Don's posture was so like Ely's I had to get a photo of it. Don's piece River Vessel was loaded next. Don has several small pieces ($280.00) of bronze and stone in the Holidazzle exhibition. I also have a bronze(Persephone Falling) in Holidazzle as well.

Don and Tony Hardesty pick up River Vessel to place it on the cart. The sculpture will be placed on top of it's base at the entrance to the Museum.

Ely is escorted into the Museum.

This is a close-up of Jimson Weed I found it in our lower field.

This is an ultra close-up of a morning glory in my sister Liz's yard, thought this make a nice contrast to the Jimson Weed.


This pretty guy (or girl) is a jumping spider. I found it in the lower field.

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