This piece is included in an exhibition of the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, March 4-June 3 2012. March 4 is a symposium featuring speakers Cindi Strauss, Garth Clark, Ezra Shales, Jenni Sorkin, Jorunn Veiteberg and Mark Del Vecchio. There will be a catalog published jointly by the MFA-H and Yale University Press.
Here are images of some materials research of on-site soils in the form of a 1:1 study of the north wall of my residence.
I am pleased to announce that the piece pictured has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as part of the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection. I have three pieces available from the same series, pictured below. For inquiries please email. To purchase please visit here.
An online exhibition to underwrite studio construction.
More in depth descriptions of each bowl available at the alternate venue on: Facebook
As of July 7, the wall measures 78″ above the concrete.
Rammed Earth Workshop
Durham (NC) Friends Meeting (Quakers) hosted a rammed earth workshop at our land. Click on pic above for link to entire album (Picasa). Images are of a sculpture that functions as an architectural study, at 1:1 scale, of a section of our north wall. The completed study will measure 96″ from the top of the concrete. Material is unadulterated clay rich, subsoil, compacted by hand tools.
trusses up...
...and braced
This is the first wooden structure I’ve built in which I knew all the lumber as trees.
