This sculpture is a landscape built
from an abandon piano that I have dissembled. Five rectangular boxes
stretch horizontally across the piece with slight variations in
width and depth. Above the boxes, set back to the wall a wavy piece
of brass perforated with many one half inch holes slopes up to the
right. Set just in front of the brass is a wooden bar with thin
steel dowels in two rows pointing outward. Surrounding most of the
dowels are small green felt pads. The ones that are missing have
left a light circle of lighter wood that has no patina. The same
wooden doweled bar runs across the bottom of the boxes. Behind it
is a heavy piece of dark wood that anchors the sculpture to the
wall. Dancing along the top of the boxes are the accuating parts
of the piano hammers that have been paired together to look like
people with arms and legs flailing. The brass becomes a hill and
at the top of the hill you see the bottom of a white piano key,
who’s end has been cut into the shape of a birdhouse with
a red door connected to the side of this little house is a tiny
bent wire part with some small red felt parts, looks like a perched
red bird. Inside the boxes are parts cut and rearranged into a landscape.
This ancient garden looking garden continues flowing from one box
to the next. It is planted with rows of flowers in sliver, exotic
bushes of white an blue felt, evergreen trees taper wide at the
bottom, black keys make a brick wall, white keys are cut into tall
slender curvey plants and a hill made from a curving piece of wood
that once held the piano strings sweeps from the back of the left
box continues through all the boxes. Also inside the boxes men of
piano hammers walk with their heads down. On the dark board below
is the title cast in iron and painted gold FOREST GATE.
Men in anxiety march through the garden
of the underworld as the happy family dances up the hill to the
house of the red bird.
For a more detailed description of this sculpture
please contact hank@chronicart.net.
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