Proposal Drawing #1
Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity: The Taiwan Tangle
2009
Proposal for Guandu Nature Park International Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan,
Ink and mixed media on paper.
Proposal Drawing #1
Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity: The Taiwan Tangle
2009
Proposal for Guandu Nature Park International Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ink and mixed media on paper. Detail of perspective.
Proposal Drawing #1
Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity: The Taiwan Tangle
2009
Proposal for Guandu Nature Park International Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009
Ink and mixed media on paper. detail of plan view.
Proposal Drawing #2
Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity: The Taiwan Tangle
2009
Proposal for Guandu Nature Park International Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ink and mixed media on drafting film.
Proposal Drawing #2
Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity: The Taiwan Tangle
2009
Proposal for Guandu Nature Park International Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ink and mixed media on drafting film,detail of perspective.
Blind
Proposal Drawing for Riverfront Heritage Trail, Kansas City, MO, 2001-02
Mixed media on vellum, 26 x 36".
The size and shape of Blind are based on an old house that once existed near the site. Blind itself is a quiet place surrounded by a watery habitat that will become home to countless species when the old parking lot in Kansas City's River market area becomes a wetland. Blind is designed with viewing slits and a "crows nest" upstairs for longer views across the wetland and Missouri River. Nesting platforms are built in the "chimney" and on ledges in the stonework. Lingering there, human visitors may see a turtle basking on a log or a blue heron stretching its wings. Here, screened from view, city people can quietly connect with the natural world in a place that encourages observation, contemplation and listening.
Blind
Proposal Drawing for Riverfront Heritage Trail, Kansas City, MO, 2001-02
Detail: Plan and perspective of site, Kansas City, MO, 2001-02, graphite on vellum, 26 x 36.
Blind
Proposal Drawing for Riverfront Heritage Trail, Kansas City, MO, 2001-02
"Birdseye" and Plan Views,graphite on vellum, 26 x 36.
Proposal For Southmoreland Neighborhood
ArtScience Collaborative
Karen McCoy and Don Wilkison, Hydrologist.
2000
Mixed media on velum (drawings-McCoy), 22 x 30".
Proposal For Southmoreland Neighborhood
ArtScience Collaborative
Karen McCoy and Don Wilkison, Hydrologist.
2000
Mixed media on velum (drawings-McCoy), 22 x 30", detail of perspective.
Ear Mapping
Project for "The Edge of Town", Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT., 1995
Charcoal and mixed media, 22 x 30" .
Two Scoops for Meniscu
1989
Charcoal and conte crayon on paper, 32 x 40".
Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum for Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas.
Perverse Cultivation
Project for Hudson Valley Community college, Hudson, NY. 1992
Mixed media, 18 x 10".
Healing Gesture
Project for the St Croix National Scenic River near its confluence with the Mississippi,
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wisconsin, 1986
Conte and charcoal on paper, 30 x 40".
River Warren
Proposal for the Minnesota Division of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, 1984
Conte on paper, 30 x 40".
Stain System
Proposal to Art Park, New York, 1983
Mixed media on paper, 30 x 40".
Stain Stacks
(unbuilt) proposal, 1982
Charcoal on paper, 22 x 30".
I often make proposal drawings for prospective projects, some of these, labeled projects have been built, others labeled proposals have remained just that.
See Environmental Sculpture and Public Projects for more information on the projects that have been built.
Blind
Proposal Drawing for Riverfront Heritage Trail, Kansas City, MO, 2001-02, mixed media on vellum, 26 x 36.