When I first saw Socrates Sculpture Park, I was reminded of experiences from my childhood in California. I had worked with my father (a horticulturalist) renovating rubble-strewn lots and deteriorated landscape sites. I knew the kind of labor and creativity involved in the process of bringing a forgotten piece of land back to life. I remember the initial roughness of those sites in California and the transformation that evolved because of our work. In many ways, I felt a sense of deja vu when I first saw Socrates Sculpture Park. But instead of trying to reconstruct the kind of process my father and I experienced with landscape in California, I decided to approach this sculpture space in a new way for me \u2014 create and construct a sculpture based on the clearest, least interrupted expanse on this site: water.<\/p>\n
Water to support sculpture \u2014 something flexible and mobile but simultaneously solid as steel, wood or other materials used for land-sited sculpture. Sculpture on water would complement the powerful, massive works developed on land. Light-weight mylar constructions inflated with helium later, deflated and stored, are for me a captivating idea for sculpture, a curious paradox at a time when available land space for sculpture is most precious and endangered like an almost extinct species.<\/p>\n
I would like to thank all the people who helped me, especially Elaine Epstein and Loren Calaway.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2547,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"exhibition-theme":[],"class_list":["post-2546","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-theme?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}