JAMES TYLER

 

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GROUNDWATER COLOSSUS

 

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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