87 inches tall,
85 inches wide, and 44 inches deep
This sculpture is made of a single
piece of Post Oak. It was stripped of the bark and sanded with three
hundred twenty grit sandpaper for over one hundred hours. Then it
was oiled three times and waxed and buffed. It is highly polished.
It is a light golden color with several darker major scars and many
very small scars. It hangs from above by a one-eighth inch black
steel cable and comes to about an inch from the floor allowing the
sculpture to have a mobile effect. This description is from what
is considered the front.
Starting at the top the limb is about
three and one half inches in diameter. This main limb stays vertical
several feet with some slight bends and twists. A foot or so from
the top there is a one and one half inch circular protrusion. This
protrusion has a conical recess. Now to me it looks like a yao,
to others maybe the mouth. The limb continues another foot until
another limb branches to the right at thirty degrees down. This
limb extends sixty inches with a few hard bends and several other
branches and a V at its termination. The second limb, down just
another six inches from the first branches, travels left for twelve
inches and then bends ninety degrees straight down. It has many
twists and turns with several V’s and comes down almost to
the floor. The branch splits once more to create two one quarter
inch branches that run parallel with the floor to create a ‘T’.
The third limb branches to the right moving horizontally twelve
inches then V’s, one part continuing horizontal and the other
going straight down. At the place where this third limb branches
from the main limb there is a two inch wide by four-inch tall elliptical
scar. These scars are recessed exposing the heartwood of the tree.
The scars are surrounded by a one half inch of darker crusty wood
as the tree heals itself. The main limb continues down six inches
and makes a hard forty degree turn right, then in six more inches
it turns left running almost thirty six inches parallel and a couple
of feet from the floor. It has several smaller branches that turn
almost straight down before it makes a V at the end. At all of the
branch terminations there are small red doll tennis shoes, which
are five different sizes from three inches to one and one quarter
in length. A total of nine pairs of shoes are attached to the branch
terminations. All the turns and V’s have the appearance of
pairs of legs running and jumping in different directions. The name
of this piece is Every Which ‘a Way.
Scattered nerves
Splitting different directions
Run fast red shoes.
For a more detailed description of this sculpture
please contact hank@chronicart.net.
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