Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes, 2023

public art exhibition - Johnson City, Tennessee
December 19, 2023 - June 7, 2025  

Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
18in x 63in x 63in 

Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm. Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.