Earth Helix

So, I got my beltline project up, and am quite pleased if I do say so myself. I installed the main structure, then was holding out on adding the skin until a break in the weather. Well, a real break never came, so on the first real day of sunshine I finished the first stage. (I finished the day before the "opening" of this years Art on the Beltline events)

1st stage completed - Sept 7, 2012

I let the solar panels charge for almost a week before installing the lights so they would be nice and strong. You could see them shine through the thick paper (its pretty subtle.)

Sept 7, 2012. About 10:00pm.

Like I alluded to above, the weather was not very cooperative, and the day after I finished, the "aging" process started. It moved a bit quicker than I expected, but I still like how the materials changed.

Sept 8, 2012 about 4:30pm. In the morning, the piece was still totally intact, but a midday storm rolled through around 3pm.

The beautiful state of ruin; in the night, the internal lights shine.

Sept 8, 2012. Around 9:00pm

I think they tried to "save" my piece.  Last time I checked, it looked like someone tried to "help me". It looks like someone gathered all the blown off paper. The paper is embedded with wildflower seeds, so although it looked like trash, it had the chance of populating the area with plant life. That's the thing I really like about public work though, when it's out of my hands, others (and nature) may do what they see fit.

Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. About 5:00pm

Proposal Images for the Atlanta Beltline

Here are the mock-up images images for my Art on the Belt Line proposal. The Work will be called "Earth Helix"

Twisting, four-sided "helix", steel frame with seed-paper skin

Solar lights inside the form come on at night

As the biodegradable paper breaks down, the light begins to shine through

Structure during the day, after a while of the paper degrading, beginning to look bare

"Skeletal" framework being lit at night by the solar lights

Hopefully, the following spring, the wildflower seeds (that were imbedded in the seed-paper skin) germinate and grow a flower field

Some stuff

some new sketches, we'll see...

©Casey Lynch 2012

©Casey Lynch 2012

Future Ghosts

So I finally finished building my new sculpture, and have installed it in downtown Columbus, GA. Here are some preliminary pics. I will take some better ones for the website whenever I get around to it.

Image ©Casey Lynch 2012

You can see the two solar panel on the top fin. (Image ©Casey Lynch 2012)

Image ©Casey Lynch 2012

Shot at night, when the solar lights inside the sculpture automatically turn on. (Image ©Cathy Williams 2012)

The Bon Fire Is Out

"They say the classics never go out of style, but they do... they do. Somehow baby, I never thought we'd do, too." - Refused

Paul Boshears called me a romantic for wanting to let the 'bonfire' fade over the two days of the event., as opposed to rebuilding it the second day.  I told him that I was not being romantic, because there is nothing romantic about fading away.
I can't say who was right, but this dead art is definitely making me feel like a sap...

Bon Fire

Here are some of the best shots from my interactive performance thig-a-ma-gig I did for Off The Edge.

A big thanks to Paul Boshears and Lauri Stallings for the opportunity, and to the guys and gals from Back On My Feet for their assistance.

I'll post more when the fire has extinguished...

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In the beginning

Getting things going, a little interaction

Pretty much going full steam ahead

Everyone is gone, but the fire blazes on...

A Milky Way

Images of a new work for Work In White, a show I will be in at CherryLion Studios in Atlanta, on January 28.
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A Milky Way Mixed media, © Casey Lynch (2012)

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Detail shot of A Milky Way ©Casey Lynch (2012)

Glow stick shipment arrived!

I just got my shipment of glow sticks for my participatory piece for Off The Edge in Atlanta's Woodruff Park. As always, a few cracked in transit, so here is a small "fire" made from them.  The official work will be called "Bon Fire," and will have a small group of people creating an artificial bon fire from orange, yellow, and red glow sticks.  There will be a circle of about 5000 glow sticks activated during the event. I'm hoping to also have some audience participation...