Travis Cohen
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I know, Atomic Ice Cream is a strange piece, but I also think it will be fun, mysterious, visually engaging, and accessible-on varying level- to anyone who has ever eaten an ice cream cone, and you can't get much more common than that.
'Atomic Ice Cream"
At first glance you will see a towering stack of spheres balancing precariously on a short cylinder, hopefully bringing to mind an ice cream cone. Close inspection reveals that the material that the ice cream cone is made of, strangely and improbably, is bicycle tires. Hopefully at this point, you loose a little of your footing in reality, and upon reading the title of the piece -Atomic Ice Cream- you find yourself beginning to see the scoops as something else altogether: as atoms strung together in a floating globular molecule, light shining up from the glowing cone, through the empty space between the tires, casting shadows on the ceiling, scant evidence of their existence. This idea might play strangely in your mind as you compare it back to the experience of eating a real ice cream cone, in which you must both work with and fight gravity, to keep the stack in order, and not on the floor or dripping onto your fingers... or the way that the scoops melt into each other, strangely becoming one...
The Sculpture that I propose for Scrapel Hill is a tall, gangly play on physics, that I call
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