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Title
Standing: schematic proposal
Creator
Smith, Kiki (American sculptor and printmaker, born 1954)
Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)
Contributor
Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Stuart Collection Photographs
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Drawings and Watercolors
Graphic Design and Illustration
Architecture and City Planning
Sculpture and Installations
Photographs
Garden and Landscape
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.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Format
Photomontage
Form/Genre
paths
bronzes (objects)
public art
sketches
sculpture gardens
sculpture (visual work)
nudes (representations)
public sculpture
Drawings (visual works)
photomontages
courtyards
landscape architecture
site-specific works
proposals
casts (sculpture)
outdoor sculpture
schematic drawings
fountains
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8943638d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Human body
Feminism
Monuments
American
Water
Death
Eucalyptus
Anatomy
Heads
Women artists
Contemporary
Faces
Trees
Columns (architectural elements)
University of California, San Diego--History
Paths
Bronzes (objects)
Public art
Sketches
Sculpture gardens
Sculpture (visual work)
Nudes (representations)
Public sculpture
Drawings (visual works)
Photomontages
Courtyards
Landscape architecture
Site-specific works
Proposals
Casts (sculpture)
Outdoor sculpture
Schematic drawings
Fountains

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