Tom Burtonwood

This is one of my first experiments with mobile sculpture / art that can be deployed easily (in public, or elsewhere). This piece was constructed using cardboard boxes hoarded from the local liquor store, embedded around a garment rack and painted bright yellow. the intention at best was to create something utterly jarring to the every day, something completely absurd and drag it around the strip in carbondale for a photo opportunity. i guess i wasn’t really concerned with getting reaction / feedback from the public, as we did the “deployment” early one morning when the sky was blue but everyone else was still sleeping. gorilla suit assistance from David Lohman who helped in many significant and diverse ways thru carbondale experience 1998 – 2001 and onwards.

looking back and forwards i think the intention behind this piece is just fine, and again like a lot of my carbondale era work there’s a lot of humor in it, the materials- recyced cardboard and glue, are still staples of my diet here in chicago, so i can see more of these sculptures on the horizon, i’d like to cut the garment rack out and just make these lumpy balls, make maybe 10-15 different sizes, different colors and roll them around my neighborhood, i think that would be a lot of fun…..

Tags: absurd, carbondale, david lohman, interuption, intervention, mobile, sculpture, southern, tom burtonwood, yellow

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