Dallas - 3PM on a Winter's Day
by Robert J Sadler
Title
Dallas - 3PM on a Winter's Day
Artist
Robert J Sadler
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Photograph taken through the "Portal Piece" in downtown Dallas on a winter's afternoon. The old Mercantile Bank Building Tower clock read 3PM.
"The Portal Piece" - "The knife-like sculptural wall cutting into and thru the grass hills planned for the Carpenter Plaza at the north-eastern entrance to the City of Dallas, was
conceived in direct response to the conditions of the sight and its intended use
as a "portal" to the city. In complementing a very green park by the introduction
of a single dramatic piece of geometry to set as a natural foil for the organic
qualities of the trees, grass and rounded hills, to play against the material of
Cor-ten was chosen for it's rich dark brown tactile surface as an accent for the
greens, rusts and golds of the park as well as its maintenance free properties
which are very desirable in such a natural setting. The placement and
configuration of the sculpture was determined to focus the separate sections of
land at the pivotal point of entry and to be accessible to people passing by in
automobiles from every direction where the expanse of the mass properties of
the sculpture will suddenly all but disappear in passing its knife-like edge. The
sculpture has the added properties for those further curious in participating of its
plural sight-lines, its walkthrough portals, and that on the top of one hill it is
acting as a negative line, cutting into the other hill, plus the very dramatic views
of its 700 foot length as a single line cutting the landscape."
Robert Irwin, Artist's Statement July 1978
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January 7th, 2014
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