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Artist’s
Statement
stac·ca·to;
adv – in music, quick separate notes: to be played,
as rapid short detached notes (used as a musical direction);
adj - quick and clipped: rapid, brief, and clipped in sound1
What
a fitting name for this unique sculpture! That’s because
it is made of short little pieces of 100-year-old solid pine
pipe organ pipes. The design is staccato (quick,
separate, short, detached), and the material is musical (pipe
organ pipes). These elements combined with the incredibly
warm and earthy feel of the pipes themselves contribute to
the overall value of this work of art. The end grain on some
of these pine pipes is absolutely magnificent. I hand-rubbed
each staccato-cut section with wax to bring out the natural
beauty of this end grain.
The organ
pipes from which this sculpture was created come from a handmade
German organ that was housed in a church in an older part
of St. Louis, MO. That organ was built in the late 1800’s.
It became musically defunct after being saturated with water
when firemen tried to put out a fire at the church. Yet these
pipes live on to make beautiful “music” in the
form of sculpture!
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