Tower Arch
Steel 24" x 30" x 10'Carl Billingsley, Ayden, NC
My current sculpture is almost equally divided between large scale fabricated metal sculptures for public sites and smaller scale cast metal sculptures for more intimate spaces. My sculptures are made to be experienced in the fullness of the physical presence, in all kinds of weather, with all types of light, at dawn, dusk and in the heat at midday. No matter what I may hope that they "mean," nor what I might have intended to convey, they must stand and be understood by each viewer as a unique experience. My sculptures are "abstract" in the sense that, although we speak or write about love or fear or some other experience of human life, those words signify the experience but they can't describe the actual experience. Thus, my sculpture Tower Arch signifies the visual experience of seeing towers and arches, references the dynamic of such structures and joins the form of the two very different types of architecture/engineering into a new and unexpected structure which appears in our environment and is there waiting to be experienced.