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Intimate River Sculpture And Story by Gary Lange
These are working photos of a 9 foot by 7 foot sculpture / fountain that I am creating. I expect to next update these photos SOON , (I hope!!) Most of these photos were taken 2 years ago. I've worked on the sculpture a lot since, but it remains hard to photograph. For information and more recent working photos, please e-mail me at gary@intimateriver.com THANKS for the patience! Click on the photos below to lead to a variety of pages focusing on individual aspects of the sculpture. Here you will find collections of photos from multiple close up views, to photos that show the sculpture as a fountain.

BIRDS-EYE PHOTOS OF THE SCULPTURE

Click on the photo to your left to see a variety of "Birds-eye" photos of the Intimate River sculpture. In some of these photos I have played with various computer graphic software so that you get an idea of what the sculpture might look like in bronze, or redesigned to be a wall installation. The actual sculpture is designed to lay nearly flat. While the art piece is conceived to lay about a foot or two off of the earth, having a slight downward slope from head to foot much like a stream bed, it could be installed at many different angles, and in an assorted number of ways. If desired, the water flow of the fountain could be reconfigured to not only flow down and around the two bodies, but also to fall off of the sides into a larger surrounding pool.

CLOSEUP PHOTOS OF THE SCULPTURE

   Click on the photo to your left to see a variety of "close up photos of the Intimate River sculpture. There are close up photos of the busts, hands, legs, feet, and the woman's hair, as well as a series of photos that zoom in on the sculpture.

ABOUT THE SCULPTURE AND THE ARTIST
A Work In Progress

   Here are two hyperlinks to articles about Gary's work that one can access also. The first About The Artist is written by a friend and works as a bio for the artist. This sculpture took ten years of individual work, and some co-operative effort of friends, both paid and volunteer. But beyond that, this is a sculpture designed to reflect a rich and varied involvement with the earth. The second article Thoughts On Combining Sculpture, Poetry, and Life was written directly by Gary and looks at some of his personal history as a writer and poet, a ceramic artist, a organic farmer, and a reforestation contractor from which the sculpture draws unique perspective and sense of life.
   Below, there is also a comment written by Gary, that explores some of the long developmental history and radical changes in the sculpture. This sculpture started out one night, as nothing more than a little "figurine" center piece for a table top fountain. Now it is 9 feet long by 7 feet wide. It has truly aged and evolved over time.

Photos of the Sculpture As A Fountain B
The River Of Life

   The fountain aspect of the sculpture is integral to the theme of the work. Click on the photo to see more images that show the movement of the water. Without the water, the sculpture is a beautiful, sensual, romantic piece.. But the two people are imbedded in a stream, and are the banks of it's river. It is as if the water that flows through and around them blesses them and unifies them with the earth, and with the wellspring of eternity; calling and answering. The sculpture has water emerging from eight different locations, running from the behind the heads, towards the feet.. The sculpture sits on a slight incline from horizontal, and the water could be made to also flow over the sides, into a surrounding pool.

Photos From a Few Different Angles

   One of the things I enjoy most about good sculpture, is that it invites you to walk around it, and it changes "faces" as you do, so that from every new angle, you find a new exploration of the sculpture and it's theme. In working on the Intimate River sculpture for a decade, I have had ample opportunity to develop and explore the sculpture from all angles. For some reason this is a near obsession with me, wanting to be reaching for something more, as I circle the sculpture, wanting the sculpture to be strong and vibrant, no matter what angle I view it from. It is a constant give and take, working it up from one angle, and tearing it down from another, but slowly, very slowly, a united whole emerges, that soars way beyond what one could originally see.

Some Photos From The Archives
Also Some Thoughts On It's HIstory>

   This sculpture has it's own history. Click on the photo or the link and read abouthow it grew from a little one foot long sculpture into the present nine foot by seven foot sculpure/fountain.

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Intimate River Sculpture And Story by Gary Lange

Intimate River Sculpture And Story
by Gary Lange