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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005
PUBLIC ART
FROM PAGE 5
Kim Radochia, a Massachusetts
native, sculpted “Swept Up,” a
metallic piece located in front of
the police station on Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard. She said some
outdoor shows have strict entrance
requirements, but Chapel Hill’s
open-call exhibit makes the public
art domain more accessible.
“Sometimes you have to meet
certain qualifications, which can
be very difficult if you’re trying to
break into the field of public art,”
she said.
Each of the artists is given an
honorarium of S6OO for his or
her work, which covers the cost
of transporting the sculpture to
Chapel Hill and setting it up.
If a piece is sold, the town gets
a 15 percent commission for that
work —but Flory said profiting
from the pieces is not a priority.
“That isn’t our goal at all, to
sell the pieces,” she said. “Our
goal is to showcase the artwork.”
This year’s pieces range in price
from about $2,000 to $25,000.
From the 2004 show, Chapel
Hill resident Terry Barnett
bought “Sun Search” —a tower
ing bright yellow experimental
sculpture by Wayne Trapp.
Barnett, who refers to the
piece as “Here Comes the Sun,”
said he chose it for its inspira
tional themes.
“It is bright and sunny, and
to me it shows optimism and
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confidence and faith in a better
future,” he said.
Barnett also said he favored
Chapel Hill’s approach to an out
door art event.
“One thing that I like that the
public arts commission is doing
is it’s not looking to buy, it’s sim
ply renting,” he said.
Chapel Hill funds the work of
the arts commission this year
through a grant of $125,000,
Flory said. The money helps cover
some of the artists’ honorariums
and the exhibit’s operating costs.
“It’s nice that we’re adding to
the collection of the town, wheth
er it’s town-owned or not, through
this program,” Flory said.
One of the pieces in a past
exhibit was even purchased by
the town. Betty Branch’s “Once
Upon a Time” was displayed
in front of the town library for
2003’s “Visions.”
Since the sculpture of a girl
reading a book was so beloved
by library members, former
Town Council member Lee Pavao
helped raise the funds to buy the
work after the library’s director
asked him to get involved.
“Everyone thought the town
owned it, and when they found
out it didn’t, they were disap
pointed,” Pavao said.
Though the artists don’t choose
their sculptures’ locations, Flory
often places them according to
how their themes or structures
will complement the settings.
Boone resident Wayne Trapp,
Diversions
who has two sculptures in this
year’s show, “Back Packer” and
“Kyoto and Beyond,” said he was
happy with his work’s placement
“The Kyoto piece is down at
the museum, and I think it just
compliments the architecture
beautifully and the grounds
around,” he said.
The local flavor
Outdoor art exhibits such as
“Visions” are popular throughout
the state as well as the country.
Greensboro hosted the North
Carolina Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition in 2003 and 2004,
and the Florida Outdoor
Sculpture Competition is held
each year in Lakeland.
Doug Makemson of Georgia,
who crafted the Roberson Street
“Crane Queen” sculpture, said the
shows are appealing to commu
nities because of how they help
the overall aesthetic.
“They’re of the belief that it
makes the quality of life better to
put the public art up,” he said. “It’s
cheaper than buying a work, and
they get fresh work every year.”
An outdoor setting also gives
the artists more freedom and chal
lenges their creativity, said Shelby
Davis of South Carolina, who
sculpted “Through,” on display at
the Estes Drive fire station.
“You can do a lot more outside
than you can inside,” he said.
“With white walls it’s a little more
poignant, but when it’s outdoors,
you have to compete with trees
and other surroundings.”
But there are disadvantages
to an outdoor show. Some artists
said bad weather conditions can
be a concern.
Robert Coon of Florida, sculp
tor of the Mayan god statue
“Quetzalcoatl’s Declination,”
said he takes nature’s potential
to cause ruin into account when
crafting his work.
“I go to great efforts to make it
something that both the sculpture
and the paint job can withstand
the elements at least as long as
a Mercedes,” he said.
As popularity for sculpture
competitions increases, college
towns specifically have seen more
of these types of outdoor events.
Ithaca, N.Y., home to Cornell
University, hosts “Art in the Heart
of the City.” “ArtlnPlace” is held in
Charlottesville, Va., home of the
University of Virginia.
“In college towns those town
councils seem to be more liberal
about art and brave in accepting a
proposal,” said Elizabeth Breeden,
executive director of “ArtlnPlace.”
But these kinds of exhibits
certainly aren’t exclusive to col
lege towns, said Hanna Jubran of
Grimesland, creator of the “Earth,
Water, Fire, Wind” sculpture at
the fire station off Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard.
“A college the diversity may
enhance it,” he said. “But it has
nothing to do with the college.”
Regardless of the community,
artists said long-term, large-scale
exhibitions with outdoor settings
are an opportunity to get their art
out to the public. A way for their art
to achieve its purpose: to be seen.
“You can make a work and
put it in your driveway up to
a point,” said Makemson, creator
of the crane sculpture. “But you
really have to get it out there.”
Contact the A&E Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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Swords makes dull
LP with little edge
BY BRYAN REED
STAFF WRITER
Some bands just don’t rock.
Swords is one of those bands.
On its debut album Metropolis,
Swords combines elements of post
punk, electronica and alternative
rock with occasional string arrange
ments and new-wave keyboards.
Then it takes a good idea and
demolishes it by toning it down.
What’s left is a travesty fronted by
singer and bassist Corey Ficken.
His high-pitched, sleep-inducing
croon brings to mind contempo
rary Christian artists such as Steven
Curtis Chapman.
The music of Swords, while brim
ming with potential, is overwhelmed
by Ficken’s drowsy vocals and stifled
to the point of frustration.
Overall, the band sounds like U 2
on Valium, except for the untitled
track five, where the band wastes
two minutes and ten seconds of the
listener’s life on an experimental
ambient fare that sounds more like
the band retuning its instruments
instead of playing a song.
However, at times the sedated
sounds are effective, as in the haunt
ing “Family Photographs,” which is
about a broken home.
The band challenges Ficken in
the synth-heavy “Radio Radio” by
upping the musical intensity ever
so slightly, but the sleepy singer still
manages make the track boring.
By the last two tracks, “Metropolis”
and “The Last Song,” Swords has
finally thrown in the towel and falls
back to the slow pace of the voice
at the front, making for a cohesive
end to the record, even though both
songs reprise earlier tracks.
The latter is an ironic homage to
’Bos heroes Hiisker Dii.
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as a band on the cooperative front
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experimental post-punk, but voca
ly they’re stuck singing along b
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ing they could rock that hard.
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involved in other careers outside f
the music industry.
They should keep their dayjols
for a while longer.
Metropolis is pretentious and
insipid. Lyrics abound with sant
repetition that accomplishes litle, if
anything at all.
Also in the filler are redunlant
gems like “Out in the streets gbsts
walk the streets,” in the title tra.
Another pearl of Swords’ rhebri
cal mastery is the deep and phlo
sophical lyric, “What is the us of
this useless information?”
Perhaps the real question is: Wiai
is the use of this useless record?
Contact the A&E Edita
at artsdesk@unc.tdi.
STAR
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(C)2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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