Rodeo Beach, viewed from the trail from Headlands Center for the Arts Located on a barren bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Marin Headlands, the Headlands Center for the Arts (HCA) feels remote, like the edge of civilization, despite its close proximity to San Francisco. Founded in the early 1980’s, HCA occupies a series […]
Category Archives: aesthetics
Research Topics du Jour
One of the challenges and pleasures of developing site specific, public sculpture is following several threads of research simultaneously and trying to find unexpected connections that make sense. Here is a sampling of some topics we are researching as we design a series of kinetic sculptures for the Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati: 1. […]
Dedication of the Colorado Judicial Center
North Elevation of the new Ralph L Carr Colorado Justicial Center I spent two days this past week participating in an elaborate dedication ceremony for the new Ralph L Carr Colorado Justicial Center in Denver. Wowhaus was awarded one of the highly competetive public art commissions for the new building, a modernist riff on classical […]
Notes from the Bonfire
Flotsam of the Day
I love a beach tangle, lines yanked and rolled by the surf, twisted colors at the tideline.
Of A Wednesday
The week hangs from a Wednesday dangling a loop of dropped Saturdays and Sundays from an inversely symmetrical chain of Tuesdays and Thursdays; The mid-day clasp of a Wednesday opposites the dark medallion of Saturday night.