Hey there Folks - update on the 'Trillian' Sculpture, (42 meters wide by 45 meters high Baby); Listener Alan sent in this pic of the Sculpture Site as it is currently:
"Finally got a shot of Broadway roundabout - and there's already a huge sculpture sitting in the middle of it. Northern Ireland Electricity have beaten Belfast City Council to it - there's a electricity pylon surrounded overgrown with trees and bushes, and surrounded by circling cars and lorries. So one piece of art will have to be destroyed to allow the wild bloom structure known as "Trillian" to be erected in 2008!"
So...one piece of 'Site Specific' work will have to be destroyed to make way for another...interesting. Check out the links below for further info - and notice how 'Trillian' Artist Ed Carpenter displays his name on his website. If the animation doesn't work in your browser click here to see; we gotta interview this guy for our show!
Original Letter to America Link
Ed Carpenter's Site
Belfast City's Press Release
Another Belfast Sculpture
Haaa... love the name. I imagine as a 5-year-old, the prodigious Edward V. Carpenter II saw his name in writing and, noticing the obviously prophetic letters to spell the complicated word "art," realised it was his divine destiny to create large... things. In roundabouts.
Posted by: Jenny | November 14, 2005 at 03:07 PM
hey man - what happened to playin' Devil's Advocate?
Seriously though - I'm gonna call Edward and get the real lowdown from the man himself...
Posted by: Jett Loe | November 14, 2005 at 03:25 PM
I must say I do like the guy's work. :)
Posted by: Jenny | November 14, 2005 at 04:02 PM
yeah exactly - so maybe i've been too 'down' on him...that said notice how the BBC cropped the original 'visualisation' of the piece thereby hiding the surrounds, (ugly tower blocks). That's the thing- the piece is not in isolation - or in a large plaza, but in a Roundabout...so we'll see...I'll try to get hold of Ed sometime this week.
Posted by: Jett Loe | November 14, 2005 at 04:08 PM
Hey LTA Team, you've got a cool new banner. When is the next chapter coming along? Thanks...
Posted by: Shane | November 15, 2005 at 03:58 PM