Remember Those Deadlines!
The Great Figure
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
The Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton, recently invited all Canadian and international artists to submit proposals for a public artwork at Fire Station No. 5. This open competition is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas”. With a budget of $60,000 (maximum, all inclusive), the deadline for submissions was 4:30 PM Friday, August 8, 2008.Unfortunately, I had the date wrong in my head, and got folked up all weekend, so I plumb dang forgot to mail my
submission in on time. Too bad, it was a goody: based on the famous Charles Demuth painting, inspired by the William Carlos Williams poem, my large glass-tile mosaic would have carried along in the ongoing tradition of works like Robert Indiana’s “Demuth American Dream, No.5”, or Jasper Johns’ “The Black Figure 5”. As Henry Geldzahler observed in an essay in 1965, “The Figure 5 in Gold [is] a work with a past and a future”.Oops. Better luck next time...
Labels: When Not Sculpting
posted by MC @ 11:30
3 Comments:
I might be tempted to try and slip it in late... talk to the public art lady. Surely finding the best possible piece for the site is the intention - not rewarding those that get it in on the deadline.
I wish 'k' was the art lady.
when I run the world, things will be different!
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