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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1987)
October 14, 1087 Environmental sculpture garden ■-foot flag pole decorated with ■inted designs standing at the ■uth end, a 95-foot steel vine Bllis covering a mosaic Blkway leading to a stack of Bnent blocks covered with Bick stucco. “A Flag Tower Bith Arbor” is the name of Bisage’s contribution. “He Bnted a piece that established Bis area as a sculpture garden, B art park,” explained True. ■Rather than working with odds ■d ends found around the art ■iter, Dick Pickering was drawn Bre to the boulders. “Dick Bnted to some how suspend Bm, to take the boulders, each Sighing well over 1000 pounds, ■t of context, and discover them ■ a new way,” remembers True, ■thin two months Pickering ■d completed his sculpture, the ■owering Boulders.” The col- ■nn stands 12 feet high, four feet ■de, on a base of bricks and ■ass, with four boulders hung by pel cables one on top another up e center. At present Kosage’s and ickering’s sculptures are the on- iy two, of four in the garden, instructed from recyclable nterials. Over the next 10 years, bwever, Rick True, “hopes to Intinue funding and would like us to become a show case for Bth regional and national Bulptures.” ■ “Now we’re finalizing the ■etails,” explains True, “and in Be future we would like to create ■ least one sculpture a year.” ■ “For a miniscule amount of ney, the college gets a wonder piece of artwork,” concludes The four boulders in Dick Pickering’s sculpture, each weighing well over lOOOlbs, are suspended above one another by four steel cables. Dick Pickering s sculpture the “Towering Boulders. ” C u- V- Colors by Munsell C
