More rebar

Landscape strictly divided by upright rebar:

Below, the entire piece. In the background, the highest piece of ground on the left (the knob, as we know it) is the site of "Arc", not visible in poor resolution provided by camera. The rebar is clad in rubber tubing and painted silver.
Both this piece and the Arc need to be relocated. Also, they both need to be in a different context. Standing alone, looming over the landscape is not the assigned mission for either of them. The upright rebar could live without the bendy bit at the top and, as it now stands :) is a model for an installation of which it would be an element. More about that later. I am preparing extensive verbiage and diagrams of proposal.

Arc (Rebar 1)

Up on the knob, overlooking a vast landscape.
This is a long piece of rebar with a section of rubber hose drawn over it, sprayed silver.
My original intention was to have a tall vertical piece, made of similar materials, standing in the same location, but I did not take into account the flexibility of the material (depth of burial, width of rebar, max height, etc.). I will have to try the same project with different material on same site, perhaps replacing current installation (since the site is so great), then I'll move this piece to another location.

Shards, shards, it's all shards now... ... ... but...

Installation of "Glass" in the landscape is one thing, installation of glass in a bleak, sheet-rocked indoor space is another. Sheetrock, malleable plastic floor, and a drop ceiling with a good, strong ceiling above it, is what I would like to find most of all. A place in London, of all weird locations, seems to fit the bill. Perhaps I will harass them.

Meanwhile...
Glass "C" fell in upon itself shattering into well proportioned shards.
The best thing I have ever done has become a dangerous ruin.
Glass "F" was meant to shatter into blackened fragments right away.
The charred remains of Glass "F" added to Glass "A" produces a Rococo Glass "A"+.

(but it really doesn't male much sense)

(yet)

And now look how the mighty have fallen.
Not too bad. "Glass C":

Arise!("Glass E"):

Glass 4 two

Did more work on the ground. Need to do more to the whole surrounding area.
These photographs convey more of the feeling that the piece has.

From a distance. The glass is located in the uppermost earth/rock colored area, barely visible in this photograph as in true/real life. Need to click (and then +) on image to have hope of seeing anything at all:

Not that much more visible from close-up either. It will be even less visible when I clean off the caulking on the edges, but I will allow it to matt-out over a period of time:

Tricky close-up showing bottom edge, which I might expose even more. See how it weathers:

View from above -- other side:

Foreshortened view:

Glass 4

Thank you Theodore -- just as I gave up all hope of ever getting my hands on large sheets of glass.
I need to do a lot more work on shaping the ground. For now the piece is set. I hope that it looks like it fell out of the sky. I placed it by raising it by a corner up as high as I could, way over my head, arms straightening and locking at the elbow for a brief, frightening moment, and while gaining even more altitude by rising on tiptoe, I then slammed it into the ground with its edge.
(The shovel in the top corner of the top photo is just decoration; pay no attention to it.)
I might raise the sand on the right ( as in photo below) and expose more of the glass on the left side, where the bottom edge corner hangs loose.

Install or...

...what!

I do seem to be somewhat involved in installation mania. There will be a slight delay in the next piece appearing on the mesa, since I have to drag some concrete up there. However, I am still handling glass, smaller and smaller pieces all the time, since it is fragmenting. Mirrors are becoming a serious consideration, but! one thing at a time.

Glass 3 again

Very consuming, this installation.
In the image below matte, dirty glass in a slightly muted morning light. There is a forest fire, somewhere in the Jemez, the distant ranges have a blue, fuzzy tinge to them. A distant view, the stone steps on the right are a fragment of what I have been staggering up with sheets of glass:

Closer, from the other side:

The glass is dirty, I am very cautious about cleaning and applying textures to it. view at sunrise:

I did spray some DW40 along the top (just happened to have some in my pocket), and let it trickle down without wiping:

The trickle-down effect after an extended visit to photoshop:

This is where I stand right now. I cannot tell how vulnerable to the wind this piece is. Spring (our official wind season) is nearly over, but we are expecting some severe windy weather in the next few days. The glass wobbles dramatically when the wind is strong -- I will have to get some video footage of that. I hope that I will have a chance to both affect and see affected by the elements the surfaces of this piece before it breaks. Rain would be nice...will it ever rain again.

Glass 3

Installation complete.
Comments tomorrow.

New site

My previous glass installation felt like a beginning and an end, with no further development necessary, other than perhaps size: an enormous, huge sheet dug into the sand would be welcome.
But, now I'm wavering. I have two sheets of glass sitting behind the shed. And I do have a stunning site:

Late in the day I brought some tools up, started preparing the surface. After a few deep breaths, without too much philosophizing, I grabbed one of the glass sheets (about 2 1/2' x 4'), large enough to cause problems in the fierce wind we have today, and staggered up the mesa. Tomorrow I will bring up the other one, hack into the sandstone below the sand, and install them.

Glas pluss III

This is he promised overkill, which I mentioned in the previous post.

 

The glass was stained and dirty from some previous, unrelated situation. I have since cleaned it. However, I do like it to have some "surface events", but would like them to occur within the present circumstances.

 

After washing the glass: the effect of water on sand at the base; the diagonal strokes on the sand are caused by shadows from water streaking down the glass:

The wavy sand at the base of the glass. I'm not entirely sure why I persist with this theme. Having little hills of sand press against the glass from both sides is (kind of) fascinating, and I am interested to see what happens to them with the passage of time. But the pieces stand much better without this adornment, and, especially in the case of the one above, I will return them to their previous condition. The "wavy-thing" (as seen through glass) I will return to in a different context -- in some other situation.

BTW!: I noticed that an advertisement by Windex ("See how Windex cleans streaked glass", it says), suddenly appeared on one of my editing pages in Blogger. How "they" carefully watch every little move "we" make...

Glas Pluss II

General comment on the three glass installation posts: I realize that in each case the original version, pre-overkill, was superior to what I developed afterwards (slight overkill on piece posted below, I'll post tomorrow (Sat.) morning).This mainly concerns the cute little compositions of sand at the base of the glass. It would be very easy to get rid of these and return to the earlier situation, but at this stage I am interested to see what happens to the installations as they are and as they become affected by wind and possible rain over an extended period of time. "Process" invited -- (my) hands off. I will try to document these events as they occur.

Glas pluss

This site is at the top of the mesa, beside the path that runs along the edge.
The prevailing wind should hit it on-edge, water, if it ever rains heavily again, should run up to it from the ledge above.

Tomorrow I will come up here and wash the glass (or perhaps make it more dirty -- see what kind of mood I'm in).

Glass revisited

Further explorations of glass in sand. White sand is from another area from around the house. Here it is dry:

Here after some wetting:

Dry:

Wet:

Slowly edging towards overkill. I'll use sand with a different piece of glass in another location soon.
Observe changes that occur to piece over time, but this white stuff forms a hard suInstallationrface soon. Next I'll position glass with more sifty sand in a wind exposed location. Effect of running surface water will be interesting also, but since we're in a 1000 year drought cycle at the moment I might have to simulate that effect.