PYROETTE
By
Tom Shaver for
the EXPRESSTIVAL in
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Height:
8 feet
Construction time:
35 hours
Burn time: 3 hours
Materials:
Various milled woods, screws, rebar, dried herb stalks
Burning aids:
A mix of ½ tiki lamp oil, ½ gasoline was applied with
deck sprayer before and
during burn. The sculpture was ignited with a fire spinning torch that
had been
lit with a flame started by friction dowelling.
Catchment:
5 X 5 foot tray made of metal roofing supported by metal bars and
bricks.
Participation: Shield shapes cut out of colored construction paper represented the ways in which we stop ourselves from freely expressing ourselves to other people. People wrote on one side of the shield those things that they are afraid people will think about them if they were to express themselves fully. On the other side they wrote what they truly wish to express and what they hoped people would think about them after expressing their deepest feelings. The shields were stapled to the sculpture before burning.
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Design features:
Dried stalks of lavender, basil, oregano and various flowers were
stuffed into
voids in the wooden dancing figure and wrapped with tie wire.
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