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"Man on New Planet"

92 inches tall, 18 inches wide, 24 inches deep

This is a vertical sculpture that is made of a ridged piece of tree bark and aluminum, one eighth inch rods, inch and one quarter aluminum cubes and, quarter inch plate. The slight convex shape shows the large diameter of the tree it came from. The bark has been treated with an acrylic primer. Then painted glossy black. The bottom flairs forward and is ten inches wide. The middle length of the piece narrows to six inches and the background shines through a twenty-four inch long by one eight inch wide slit and then widens at the top. The wider top follows a long natural oval shaped hole, sixteen inches tall and six inches wide. After the wood rounds the outline of the oval it continues up for another ten inches at a five-inch width. The top terminates when it divides into two one and one half inch wide strips. Recessed several inches inside the oval hole is mirror-polished aluminum with three vertical elongated holes. They make a pattern of a scary screaming face. Around the perimeter of the aluminum in a somewhat random pattern are nineteen one-eighth inch rods with one and one fourth inch cubes attached to the end of each rod. The rods measure ten to sixteen inches long and start perpendicular to the aluminum face. They come out past the surface of the wood and curve out and away from the center of the oval pattern. They make a larger irregular oval pattern five to eight inches around the outside of the oval in the wood. The heavy cubes are balanced so that they vibrate if there is any disturbance in it is environment. For example they move, if the air conditioning system comes on, if someone touches it, or if it is placed in a residence of pier and beam construction. The cubes appear to fly out of the face to make an elliptical pattern, thirty inches tall and fourteen inches wide. The base is a polished one-quarter inch aluminum plate, eighteen inches wide and twenty-four inches deep. It lays flat on the floor. It is an irregular kidney shape with a long pointed finger shape flaring off one long side. It resembles some kind of alien animal. The tall black wood sets on the flat plate and is held erect by a vertical quarter inch plate that arches up to meet the concave back of the wood. It has a two-inch wide and ten-inch long flange screwed to the wood.

When man makes his home on a new planet will he repeat his pattern there?

For a more detailed description of this sculpture please contact hank@chronicart.net.

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