stuff....buckets & pipes, concrete bricks...steadily building a show....a
create-ur-own adventure show..
We began one sunny afternoon, almost 2 years ago with 5 students from Paul
Robeson School, New Brunswick, NJ.
It has grown like one of those deep rooted, hardy weeds that just won't go
away and starts to push the rocks over.
The Greek from the Stone Museum, Jamesburg, NJ gave us two van loads of PVC pipe.
A week before the Lincoln Center show, a young man from Vienna created a
series of pipes using corrugated pipe and tape.
Istvan Papai
The week before that his friend visiting from Hungary, Judith Rosa,
created two pipes using tapes and not paint.
(Had no idea there were so many different colors of tape!)
Some of the pipes from the Greek we liked so much in their raw state....
they
will stay that way..
((in fact the show has actually created a side show all
over the Stone Museum....
he supplied us with materials for our show and began
working his own,
using concrete pipes and PVC and East Brunswick artist Chris Cornell.
We have pipes from St. Petersburg, Russia
sent via e mail by Catherine and Dima Yakovina
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We have a pipe design sent to us by a digital artist in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ursula Freer.
We have pipes coming from Henry Sunderland's project
"THE GREAT PIPE DREAM"
begun in Christchurch, New Zealand.
5 Schools are sending pipe sculptures of PVC pipe
as part of an exchange between schools in New Zealand and the USA.
Here is the list of Participating Schools & Teachers)
Tony King (Art Teacher)
ALLENVALE SCHOOL
Bevan Freeman (Art Teacher)
SHIRLEY INTERMEDIATE
Tom Baker (Student)
ST BEDES COLLEGE
Ken Frame (Art Teacher)
MARION COLLEGE
Natalie Johnstone
CHRISTCHURCH SOUTH INTERMEDIATE
Shona Kelleher
CASSEBROOK INTERMEDIATE
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We have work from Japan, by Seiji Ueoka, R2001 and his friend Sharif Ezzat, California .
R2001 has been steadily at work leaping boundaries,
linking the world through the Internet and real life visual projects.
Seiji is leading the world by example from Japan
effecting a creative change in the way people create together.
We have a pipe sculpture which is a serpent in PVC pipes strung through the
center with chain and anchored with a boulder.
Robert Rakita, Washington State
We have a Pipe coming from a famous artist named HOOP
"Little Bob" Duncan (about as famous) has created an elephant god pipe.
Jean Pierre and Maxine Gantois sent "The Tree of Knoweldge" from Benac, France
(center)
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| Tihamer Binner, Somerset, NJ | Lyka Cox, Bayville, NJ |
Three years ago we exhibited the work of a man with a serious bi-polar disorder.
A few months ago he called me and asked for help....said he'd been taken off a drug
he'd been on for something like 20 years....told me he could think a little
clearer.....no miracle.....but felt a little better.
Anyhow.....one thing he CAN do very well is focus on painting and he has allot of time to do
that. We created web pages for him, brought him over about $100 worth of
paint and we keep bringing him sections of PVC pipe....together we are growing a TREE
and putting it together one section at a time..
We will be passing out pipes and tubes of pipes and encouraging others to
find their own.....and steadily working towards the show next January....but
beyond that.....we will attempt to move it all over......an experiment in
working and playing together where we post it all to the Internet.
This can be pretty easy or difficult.....it can be as easy as having a small
PVC section of pipe sitting on a desk for a few months and asking people to
sign when they come into the office.....(or it can be more creative...) We are
looking to draw out a creativity untapped.....a collective creativity.....where we
aren't afraid to experiment together and be whimsical.
...To begin a dream together
from all our different corners of the world
linking the dreamers.
Judy Wray
