Water Balloon Table
One sunny summer afternoon the artist challenged his children to a water balloon battle. While filling balloons at the water spigot, the artist was distracted by the beauty of the water balloon’s form, at which time his daughter Chloe managed to throw a very cold water balloon, which hit him square in the face.
PROCESS + MATERIALS
The Water Balloon Side Table was cast in recycled red bronze and hand polished.
Variations were hand-carved and cast in glass-reinforced resin for the East Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.
DIMENSIONS
Bronze version: H 13 in. x W 12 in. x D 12 in.
(H 33 cm x W 30.48 cm x D 30.48 cm)
VARIATIONS
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DATE OF DESIGN/ MANUFACTURE
2002/2004
Cast in recycled red bronze from steel reinforced sculptures, hand polished, bathed in elixirs and flames to patina .Made in Chicago.
In 2003, while we were working on East, I made the mistake of allowing myself to be beguiled by the form of a water balloon I was filling at the spigot after a picnic lunch at my cousin’s house. Chloe landed an ice-cold water balloon in my good right ear. The experience burned the image of my hand gripping the water balloon in my mind. I sculpted five variations for bronze the next week, and later larger variations for resin castings. Made in Chicago.
The largest of this grouping is 12” x 15” x 18”.
East Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
East Hotel is the reincarnation of the bombed out ruins of an old foundry in Hamburg, Germany as a boutique hotel featuring Asian-fusion menus.
DONUTS
The hotel’s center in an indoor/outdoor public space, a donut hole, created by sculpting brick and concrete out of the muscular foundry structure and excavating 24’ of earth from the yard separating the foundry ruins and the new guest room building…
Every detail of East’s architecture, art and design conveys the spirit of the old foundry and the surreality of a westerner’s first immersion in the east.
If architecture in frozen music (danke Göthe) thn ornament is the melody. It is the underlying concept which transforms structural rhythms, spatial and material harmonics and details into a meaningful personality which can create an emotional connection…the melody of architecture is its soul, the spirit of the place.
CREDITS
Photos by JMA.
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