{"id":36,"date":"2007-08-12T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/viracocha-background\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T17:54:19","slug":"viracocha-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/viracocha-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Viracocha – Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several cities in this area have public sculpture exhibitions. I have been fortunate enough to have been selected as a sculptor in some of them. Two years ago two of my sculptures were in the “Sculpture on Second” show here in Cedar Rapids and I got another two sculptures in last year too. This year I got two sculptures in the Quad Cities show and that paid me a nice honorarium that helped me buy a plasma cutter (so far untested). I have also applied but have not been selected in a couple of other cities.<\/p>\n

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\nAnother show I have participated in over the last several years has been Cedar Rapids’ New Bohemia District’s 2x2xU exhibition. In that one the artist buys a 2′ x 2′ piece of plywood and can create any piece of artwork he wants. My entry this year was called Kon Tiki. Anyway, it looked like a Peruvian Death God. I made up the look of the piece as I went along but I must have had some deep memory lurking in my subconscious because when I came across an image of the Peruvian “Staff God” in a book I was reading (1491), my Kon Tiki sculpture had just about every traditional feature that the Staff God exhibited.
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This year I tried applying in the Dubuque “Art on the River” show. I tried last year too but was unsuccessful in getting a sculpture accepted. I have been thinking about doing a series of sculptures that resemble the stellae in Aztec and Mayan art. The Kon Tiki piece and pictures of the “Staff God” inspired me, so I submitted an entry along those lines. This is what it looked like:<\/p>\n

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The piece was selected and I will be awarded another nice honorarium to help pay for its construction. The cutout of the man in the picture represents someone 5′-10″ tall. The sculpture will be about 3 feet wide and over 7 feet tall. It will be rusted steel with brass and aluminum for accents. It is the most ambitious sculpture I have attempted to date. As I make progress on it, it will be the subject of future blog entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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