Public art
Tempest
Where
Tree Museum, Muskoka
Year
2009
Info
Tempest asks the viewer to imagine a stormy day when the seven wind sock like sewn red tarpaulin will bellow and slap the surface of the water, like giant koi’s caught in a feeding frenzy.
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Conceptually built into this piece is the sense of anticipation and the viewers are complicit in imagining and believing that on certain days, Tempest will indeed act up. The rest of the time, they calmly sit. The 3 works, False, Tempest and Psycho, commissioned by the Tree Museum located just north of Gravenhurst, are all process-based in one way or another: that is, they rely on the processes of nature such as wind, waves, growth of plants, etc. to be complete as works of art Related linksFalse
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