Walkaround iAlign Sculpture
iAlign Sculpture is a class or style of sculpture that I started, derived from what I learned when creating Shadow Sculptures. I started making Shadow Sculptures in 2009, but didn’t start making iAlign Sculptures until 2017.
The key idea in an iAlign Sculpture is that you, the viewer, walk around until the image becomes visible. In a sense, your eye takes the place of the light source for a Shadow Sculpture. So, I call these “Walkaround Sculptures.”
I started making iAlign Sculptures with these. Later, I also made Line Design iAlign Sculptures. I’ve included some works in this category that are hard to classify, but fun to make.
This category is where I started with Visual iAlign Sculptures, and is a bit of a catch-all: there are a few pieces that are hard to classify in here, too. I have about a dozen of these, usually somewhat larger works.
Dancing Under The Moon
Featuring a clay moon by Lois Hinman, the dancers come into focus when standing at the proper image point. The original moon was destroyed in the 2019 earthquakes, so this shows a replacement.
Heat of Desert Past
This piece features an infinity mirror concept – receding multiple images. This was created in response to the Maturango Museum’s Artefacts challenge in 2016 – the museum randomly chose items from their collection for the artists to interpret. I received a glass doorknob, with the purple coloration that comes from long exposure to the sun. I created this infinity box concept to show multiple images of a doorknob out in desert heat, melted around the dragon’s claws. The dragon’s fiery breath represents the heat of the desert sun.
Flower Girl
This piece (actually, two copies were made) was created to honor two women who are important to me: my wife, and a friend Linda. Both are gardeners, both love flowers. As you walk around this piece, from one direction you will see a flower. From a position about 90 degrees away, you will see a girl.
High Howl
We have a coyote, howling at a moon overhead. High Howl features a moon in the positive space, and a coyote in the adjoining negative space.
This is one of those hard-to-categorize pieces.
Welcome Wave Bench
This was created for a home near a ski area (hence the snowboard seat), in an area that can be quite windy. The backrest has steel members forged to represent air waves going over the hilltops. The word “Welcome” comes into focus as you walk up the steps, just as you reach the front door knob.
Welcome Quilter
My wife is a quilter, doing wonderful quilting. I made this for her, and to show/talk about with the local Quilt Guild. As you walk around it, you see the word Welcome from one direction, and the word Quilter from the perpendicular direction.
Moon Howl
Another piece featuring the idea of a coyote howling at the moon. Again, we have a clay moon created by Lois Hinman, with an image of a howling coyote that comes into focus at the proper viewing point.
This one sold so fast that I never got a gallery photo, just this in-process image.
Dancer's Hi
Featuring 6 stylized dancers, the word “HI” comes into focus when viewed directly from the front of this work.