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The idea behind Jim Hodges’ sculptural boulders, Untitled (2011)—the newest outdoor sculpture on the Walker campus—came in a flash during a recent trip through India. It wasn’t any single experience that spawned the project, but many—a cacophony of color and complexity: temples flying flags in Rajasthani fields, Ganesha statues painted orange and gold, images of the Hindu deity Hanuman enhanced with red or orange paint, women pouring water as they prayed. Hodges says he was struck by “this layering, layering, layering of material, to the point where what’s being covered, its identity, seemed to start being erased by the accumulation of color.”
Walker executive director Olga Viso made many trips to the artist’s New York studio. During one, she noticed Hodges’ preliminary sketches of the boulders, made shortly after his return from India. “I’d hung them in a corner with tape so you could get in and see them in relationship with each other,” he recalls. “I had four different-colored foil papers inside so you could see them reflecting on each other. I showed that to Olga, and she instantly grasped it and was excited by it.” Viso immediately expressed strong support for the project and her desire to pursue bringing them to Minneapolis permanently.
In April 2012, barely a year after Viso first saw the artist’s sketches, the boulders were installed on the Walker’s hillside, near the entrance to James Turrell’s Sky Pesher, 2005, a sky-viewing chamber. Arriving on three semis, they were hoisted into place by a construction crane and placed on concrete bases.
Scale is a key aspect of the work for Hodges. After searching for rocks in northern Minnesota and, finally, in Massachusetts, he selected a set of four stones, each weighing between eight and thirteen tons and standing more than six feet high.
Collectively, the boulders needed to be “large enough to challenge the physicality of our bodies, that they would become in opposition to us and overwhelm the body, in a way,” says Hodges (pictured). “They’re extraordinarily present, physical things. They feel like they’re-alive.” [Walker Art Center website]
もう最高です
やっぱりSLって楽しい
mesh lip最高(´；ω；`)
ピッカーとシェイプこねくり回して修正なし
:::Breath::prototype mesh lips(wiping)
pain is beauty