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COLOSSUS PROJECT

Colossus #2


Sculptor James Tyler has begun work on his newest monumental clay sculpture in his studio at the GAGA Arts Center in New York. Eleven feet tall, formed with 15,000 pounds of red clay, the sculpture will be among the largest free standing ceramic sculptures ever made.

The Linden Colossus was privately commissioned for a new sculpture garden 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"

The sculpture is a personification of the beautiful Linden tree—and the hardwood forest environments which they inhabit. Installation is planned for fall 2010.

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 Video Click Here

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

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more info: colossusproject.org