Chasing the Car Chase

Jambing on "Car Chase" in the studio to get the big installation done for ArtPrize and sudenly I'm derailed. A material supplier that I depend on for polymer concrete has gone out of business closing down production on my best formula. (Stress...Stresss) I spent a week on the net and phone and a trip to Chicago to find solutions. New trials, samples purchased, lots of blocks in a row with different materials. Man I 'm now a stucko lab. Tests finally yielded a suitable replacement but sheesh, what tension! Now I 'm back to carving and closing in on the forms.

Thanks a lot you bankers who caused our economic state, you just caused me a weeks work.

But the art continues. How do you stone a Hudson? Very carefully, and with polymer modified concrete! Skye Hopper, my studio assistant comes in occassionally to help. More next week as we get ready to stone all the waves.

All the best.

Tj

SculptureByTj.com

ArtPrize update -voting info

ArtPrize update: Voter registration is FREE!!!
Voting Anyone 16 years of age or older who registers in person at the ArtPrize event can vote. You cannot vote without registering at the event. There will be no charge for voter registration.
How to register
Attendees will be required to present a valid government issued ID in person at a registration station
ID can be drivers license, other state ID or passport
Pre-register on artprize.org (coming Sept 14) and save time activating your voter status at the event
There will be voter registration stations throughout the city September 23-October 7

Car Chase is coming to The B.O.B. for ArtPrize!

Car Chase will be installed at The B.O.B., 20 Monroe Ave., Grand Rapids (across from the Van Andel arena) for the Art Prize Competition. It features
figures, flying VW bugs and a Hudson. Tj's flailing, splashing figures seem to have been
impacted by this huge car's momentum. The swarm of suspended bugs harbors a
second threat. Through this moment in time, frozen in stone, Aitken speaks to our current cultural dilemma with the automobile.
Art Prize brings the Holland artist to Grand Rapids as 10 most voter-favored works win prize money. Simple public voter registration will be at select Grand Rapids locations. Voting is online. The city wide competition runs September 23 to October 10.