JAMES TYLER

 

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COLOSSUS PROJECT

 

 

A Human Face for Global Environmental Concerns


Unique personifications of place and entity, Colossus Project sculptures will strive to put a human face on complex global issues, through the placement of monumental outdoor artworks at key sites of environmental concern around the world.


Rivers no longer reach the sea, seas no longer reach their shores, island nations are under threat by ever rising oceans, ancient glaciers are disappearing all across the globe. Is there something about the scale of global issues that does not resonate at the individual level?

The colossus sculptures will create a unique connection with our natural world. Iconic representations of humanity, the Colossus Project sculptures would generate a place of presence, opening doors in the arts, environmental, and business communities.

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COLOSSUS 2 - Mosaic Plaza, Minneapolis, MN - Height 11' - 2011

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Also underway is the LINDEN BRICKHEAD, commissioned for a new sculpture park in Indianapolis, Indiana—the sculpture’s name derived from the many Linden Trees growing there.

The poet Elizabeth Browning paid her tribute to the Linden tree, of which she wrote:

'Here a Linden-tree stood, bright'ning
All adown its silver rind;
For, as some trees draw the lightning,
So this tree, unto my mind,
Drew to earth the blessed sunshine
From the sky where it was shrined"

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Groundwater Colossus

Creating the Colossus
Sculptor James Tyler has begun work on his huge sculpture, the Groundwater Colossus, in his studio at the GAGA Arts Center in Garnerville, New York. Formed with over ten tons of red clay, the sculpture will be among the largest free standing ceramic sculptures ever made. The artwork is an enormous human visage, emerging from the earth. An underground titan revealed, the personification of the vast freshwater aquifers that lay hidden beneath the surface.

Commissioned by the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, for it's new Union Plaza park, the Groundwater Colossus will sit directly atop the Ogallala Aquifer. The largest and perhaps the most important underground freshwater reserve in the world. The aquifer supplies fresh drinking water to much of the mid-western United States and irrigates farms in what would otherwise be a semi-arid plain in the heart of America's breadbasket.

Freshwater reserves in the Ogallala are declining. It is the artist's hope that the sculpture will bring attention to this environmentally important natural resource. When viewers come face to face with the Groundwater Colossus they will make a personal connection with the ecology of the mysterious world below.

CREATING THE COLOSSUS -One minute VideoClick Here

Follow the process live:
Http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creating-the-colossus

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