Ballgame
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Mame Cahalan
1991 (Painted aluminum, Steel)
Lewes, Delaware
| Artist's
Statement: "Ballgame" is a passive/interactive sculpture, which shifts its images as the observer moves in and around it. It is an open artwork, which appears to close parts of itself as the observer moves circumferentially. The painted fragments which themselves project a complex of overlapping images, coalesce into solid appearing images in bold colors as the "Ballgame" participant walks around it. The images themselves employ colored footballs and baseballs set against a strong colored checkerboard background field.
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The
canvas in this artwork is composed of eight vertical planes, which
are in fact two sides of four vertical semi-open walls joined at a
common center at right angles to each other. The net effect creates
two intersecting see-through "fences" each 10 feet high
and 14 feet long. The four wings of this mathematical projection are
composed of twenty-two, one and one-half inch square aluminum tubes
per wing, spaced about an inch apart, for a total of eighty-eight
tubes. The tubes are set in a steel frame of 4 inch square tubes composed
of five vertical steel columns and eight horizontal rails. The bottom
rail is raised above the ground at about one foot, holding the entire
piece in suspension." Budget: $20,000 |