Live. Learn. Believe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions

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Questions about happiness and perspective appear and reappear in my Artwork. As the complex is simplified and the simple is complex, I am inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the “wonderful toy” the slinky. Living in the Midwest, out of the range of hurricanes, the diagrams of circular forms showing a storm’s development makes the coming devastation seem controllable like a video game. The inexpensive Slinky seems so simple, but the physics of the spring and theories of Hooke’s law visualize the limits of stress that can be endured before it cannot be corrected when the stress is removed. This outdoor sculpture combines these two visuals with a peaceful, but artificial, grassy eye of the storm.  Thank you to the Hanover College Faculty Development Committee for the support to create this artwork and to the Dean's Body Shop for making the sculptures pink.