All the work here at Wamboin is outside. As remarked in an earlier blog post, all sculpture is in a queue to come inside, out of the wind and rain.
The art that is already inside, is the art that has been demure, vulnerable, sweet. Oh. Please don’t leave me outside. It’s cold out there.
That art has not stood the test of real heat, let alone time.
All art has to serve its time outside to be strong enough to survive.
‘We’re strong’, the sculptures declare, ‘but we’re not that strong we can wait outside forever’.
it is fairly safe to say that the art that got in(side) early will be the first art to be decommissioned.
Mark my words, outside!
Steel makes no claim on the viewer to be loved as other materials and media are loveable, with their various attributes. Steel is not tactile. It is hard. Human flesh is repelled by steel, whether it’s cold or hot. It is tech-deficient, seamful, heavy and expensive to move.
So. Stay outside sculpture and you, steel sculpture, you stand at the very back of the queue.