Autumn
Steel, cement
30' x 32' x 2"
2004
Autumn,
was a temporary installation commissioned by the Sumter County
Cultural Commission in South Carolina for their fall festival,
Accessibility 2004. In order to read the text describing the
landscape of South Carolina in the fall, the viewer had to wind
between the tall pines that stand beside the County Library.
These lines were composed by Julia Mood Peterkin, for her controversial
Pulitzer Prize Winning , 1928 novel, Scarlet Sister Mary.
"The
morning air was filled with delicious scents, ripe leaves, fragrant
weeds, fresh cotton blossoms and the breath of the dark red
earth itself.
Summer was over."