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Sculpture and Installations Garden and Landscape Architecture and City Planning Smith's vision of the body as a fluid vehicle for intimating life - and death - suggested the School of Medicine as fertile territory for Standing, her Stuart Collection project. From the beginning her ideas evolved in relation to the site between the Medical Teaching Facility and the Basic Sciences Building amidst eucalyptus trees, sloping lawns and curving pathways. Smith's original idea of a figure on a classical column soon evolved to become a figure on a cast tree trunk. A dead tree was located on campus, removed and delicately cast at San Diego Pre-Cast Concrete. So refined is the casting that it has captured the network of beetle trails that once lay under the thin eucalyptus bark -- a feature that originally drew Smith's interest. The paths of these insects, which may have played a role in the tree's death, evoke notions of veins and capillaries; the trunk's artery-like roots reach into the water below. Stripped of its bark and exposed through time and decay, it is remarkable in the way that it calls out the live eucalyptus around the site, thus embracing - even composing - the entire area. Pathways were reconfigured and added by the artist to extend the arterial imagery. "life size figure in Bronze or anodized aluminum with veins out of hands like a May Pole standing on a collumn of steel with growing on the collumn. Proposal for Stuart Collection Oct 1993 Kiki Smith" UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Format
Watercolor and pencil; graphite (mineral); 19 x 8 1/2 inches
Form/Genre
nudes (representations) outdoor sculpture sketches fountains courtyards proposals Drawings (visual works) watercolors (paintings) sculpture (visual work) public sculpture landscape architecture site-specific works paths Texts (document genres) casts (sculpture) bronzes (objects) public art sculpture gardens
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb27661085
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Human body Water Monuments Anatomy Death Heads Contemporary American Women artists Feminism Trees Eucalyptus Columns (architectural elements) Faces University of California, San Diego--History Nudes (representations) Outdoor sculpture Sketches Fountains Courtyards Proposals Drawings (visual works) Watercolors (paintings) Sculpture (visual work) Public sculpture Landscape architecture Site-specific works Paths Texts (document genres) Casts (sculpture) Bronzes (objects) Public art Sculpture gardens
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