 | Based on a commission from 1969 for a playground sculpture in northeast Portland, Steel Rings are large, organic forms of generous human scale made of Corten steel. When sited in a landscape, the view through the rings gives a borrowed, porthole look at the trees and grass on the other side. The elements are designed for human use, to be touched and inhabited like landscape features. The Corten steel material is industrial in function, yet made to weather and rust naturally, changing over the years to a rich, warm surface that shows human contact. Steel Rings also demonstrates the cyclical path of ideas and how, over time, ideas, as well as materials, are gathered up and re-assembled from old constructions. |