Attention Metal Working Sculptors

The Sowebo Art Committee invites you to participate in our collaborative and collective amalgam know forever more as the:
The Growing Sculpture

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The Growing Sculpture
The Unknown Outcome Project Unveiled at Sowebo Fest 2003
Growing Sculpture Artists (So Far):
Anthony West, Chris Rhoten, Dave Parker, Dave Scheper, Derrick Arnold, Jim Vose, John Fulcher, John Maxwell, Karl Sarr, Kerry Stagmeyer, Stewart Watson, Timothy Murray

THE IDEA:
For artists to create their own individual sculptures with two 8"x8"x1/4" metal plates welded at both ends. We ask the artists to donate these to Sowebo Arts Inc. The Sowebo Art Committee will bolted them to each other like a multi-directional totem pole . The multi-component sculpture will grow and branch ever larger as more units are added. It will be unveiled and premiered each year at the Sowebo Arts Festival. Ergo "The Growing Sculpture". It's alive baby! Endgame to have a perminant outdoor home, determined to take over Sowebo come hell or high sculpture.

YOU GET:
Each artist will be supplied with two 8"x8" x1/4" pre-drilled steel plates. A $10 deposite required for the plates which is refundable upon delivery of the completed sculpture component.

YOUR JOB:
Units must be structurally strong, use steel as a base/substructure (500 pound test). It must be able to support other elements attached to it's plates. Do not use sheet metal, cast iron, aluminum, etc in a structural loadbearing capacity. Suggested height sizes: 12", or 24", or 36", or 48". Any finish is acceptable but remember that this project will eventually be permanently installed outdoors. Most important is that the finshed work must keep the 8"x8" plates parallel and square. The bolt holes have to be accessible and the hole patterns unchanged so to mate up with the other pieces.