Joan Waters, Chandler, AZ
Sculpture 1 : Totem: Los Animales
Media: welded Corten® steel
Dimensions: 77”h x 22”w x 20”d
$12,000
This Totem is part of a series inspired by the dramatic shadow patterns cast by the desert sun everywhere around us. I ‘deconstruct’ the shadow shapes by cutting them out of sheets of industrial steel, then weld them together to form new structures that seem to echo the organic forms of their original sources, but in new, imaginative ways. The new three-dimensional sculpture will then cast its own unique shadow shapes on it surroundings, becoming dynamic as the sun moves across the sky. A community of lively animals weaves through the positive and negative shapes, including two birds, a snake, a petroglyph-spiral snail, a chameleon and a fish.