Near me on Wellesley there is an empty lot that used to be the Salvation Army. The building was torn down a couple of years ago. For a while there was a sign about a condo but that never happened. Then there was a sign saying an application had been made to turn the site into a parking lot. That sign was altered to ask why not a park?
A few weeks ago, I could see from the bus that something was going on. There were photographers and 10-15 other people all looking at the empty lot. The next time I walked by I saw what the commotion was about. There were sculptures all around the area. The largest in the middle included a shopping cart. Most of the others were piles of stones. Gradually over the coming days they were dismantled and scattered again until one day last week when some less formal stone piles appeared again.
Our new assignment in sculpture class is to place a sculpture in the world and see what happens. I knew what I wanted to do. I made two small stone piles. Cairns. They're glued together with my handy glue gun. I included some shells. I placed them yesterday and so far they haven't been moved. The photos below show some of this story -- I missed photographing the first sculptures.
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