Compost is an interactive performance installation conceived to encourage viewers to compost, instead of contributing to overflowing landfills.

The artist has given the viewer the option to dispose of their waste in the trashcan or in the compost bin.

>> Artist's website: http://compost-it.info








Judy Rushin
The Construction of Memory
Installation

Five interpretive signs pair interviews with adults about their childhood play places with early maps of Edgewood subdivision to explore the idea that personal histories are constructed and that ultimately, we must take it upon ourselves to decide what is fact and what is fantasy.






Mario Schambon & George Long
Discophone
Sculpture

The Discophone resulted as a function-designed sculpture because of the concern for it's playability but moreover it's sound. The initial piece was a material study that evolved into a musical instrument by accident. The prototype as an instrument proved worthwhile for it's tonality and playability, leading to a brainstorm that gave rise to the sculpture Discophone.

The Discophone is a percussive instrument of the idiophone group of instruments. It is very similar in approach to the xylophone or glockenspiel but it is not tuned to any scale.

The Discophone is successful in meeting our criteria of being visually enticing, loud, and easy to play. It is very resonant, letting any type of player create a swirl of sound. As an instrument the Discophone lends itself to being played well by both musician and non-musician alike. Children who are naturally curious are especially encouraged to create sounds on the Discophone.


Charlie Smith
Tunnel of Transformation I
Steel Sculpture

The Tunnel of Transformation is a 8' wide x 4' deep x 9' tall steel sculpture created in December 2000 as a symbolic passageway for both personal and group change for the Millennial exchange; the turn of the century 2000-2001 New Years Eve. That New Years Eve over 150 people walked through the tunnel in the West End to mark the transformation of time from one century to the next. This sculpture has since been presented to different art communities across the country, being burned over 15 times and consuming over 20 cords of wood.

The Tunnel of Transformation is part of a series of fire cleansing caldrons that are intended as reflections of human interactions in ritual space. The caldrons explore the five elements of nature: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Metal; the elements that create what is space = environment = the universe. Through the sculptural metal vessel the physical transformation of the elements can be witnessed through the wood firing of the caldron. The metal vessel is a beautiful form with charred, melted and contorted surface characteristics from the burning process, symbolizing the undying power of change and metamorphosis in the universe.