Kate Pond, Sculptor

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Maquettes

Maquettes are models for larger sculptures ready to be commissioned. As I develop ideas I work first with pen and ink, then paper and cardboard and eventually I make small models of sculptures out of steel, maquettes.

ByFire: 2004

A collaboration with Frank Phillips. We envision this piece in copper, bronze or steel at 8 to 12 feet tall. It could be made from multiple sheets of individually formed and welded 3/16" metal. Each of the three individual "leaves" would have a clear three dimensional presence.

ENZO I: 2008

I am inspired by Zen Buddhist brushstroke circles called enzos. My goal was to make an enzo that could stand on its own in steel while keeping the feeling of an ink brush stroke.

ENZO I, at 4 and 8 feet tall would have a substantial thickness of steel to carry through the singular strength of the piece.

ANNA: 2005

A collaboration with Frank Phillips.
ANNA is a mobius strip. (an extension of a rectangle twisted 180 degrees and attached to where it began.) At ten feet tall, a sculpture would become a bench as the strip of metal curves around through space to connect.

ANNA would be made of two metals (perhaps bronze and corten steel) sandwiched together. The two metals would meet at the center of the bench where the solar noon is marked each day when a shadow is cast on the spot where the metals join.

This would be a good public sculpture at a university or science museum.

ARCHER: 2001

This is another brushstroke inspired maquette. The curve of stainless steel invites people to walk through and could act as a threshold between a field and some trees, or a grassed area and a pond. Eight to ten feet tall.

DANCER: 2001

I see the flash of a dancer's toe leaving the ground. . She would be good small on a pedestal in an intimate garden or very large on the brow of a hill.
My technique of finishing the stainless steel lends a glow at dawn and dusk to the piece as if it were lit from within.

KAPPA: 1999

I made this maquette for an exhibit at the Bansui Gallery in Sendai, Japan. I was thinking of a folk character (an evil children grabbing creature who lives in a pond) from the northern Tono region.
I envision this horizontal piece in relation to a building, the size determined by the site.