| The Life Of A Twilmish by Sean Fitzpatrick |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|10:23 am] |
     
    
These shots are lifted from Sean Fitzpatrick's page http://www.fitzysnowman.com/Penfield_beach_2009/twilmish/index.html (if you go to the site, you can see more pix and enlarge them). Sean was the sculptor who created the scene inspired by "The Annals of Eelin-OK." He worked for three days on it. It looked to me to be pretty labor intensive work. His wife Tracy also worked on the sculpture. Sean wanted to depict the life of a Twilmish, and so he shows Eelin-Ok crouched down on one side of the sandcastle's turret in the form he was in before coming to life, then at the top of the turret he shows the character at his prime, and then on the other side of the turret he depicts Eelin-Ok in old age. In a quote to a local newspaper, he mentioned that he was struck when reading the story by the ephemeral nature of our time on the planet, in reality, a very brief span. He made the case that because of this, works of art that are ephemeral, like sand sculpture, speak to us more powerfully. He and his wife were wonderful people, and I was amazed by what he was able to do with sand. It just doesn't seem possible. The sculpture will probably last for a week or so and then the rain, the wind and the surf will obliterate it. Tracey told me that their daughter, who attends UMASS brought Sean the story and told him to check it out. Tracey also told me that Sean used to be a (I thnk she said) mechanical engineer of some kind, and that one day his son asked him to build a snowman, but not just a snowman, one that looked like Santa Claus. He did it and it came out so good, he decided to do more, and then he experimented with sand, and now he travels all over the country and the world doing these sculptures full time. I did a reading from the story, spoke about how I came up with the idea for it, and answered questions. The event was a lot of fun. Jill Walker, who organized it, did a great job. |
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What a cool tribute to a great story. Congrats!
Ellen: Yeah, it came out looking pretty good. It's an interesting experience seeing a story idea manifested in physical form.
I just figured they'd all be...smaller ;-)
You know, I thought so too, but I came to understand that he wanted to show the change and aging more than the diminutive nature of them. It would be hard to depict that and a small size at the same time I think since it is sand he's working in.
Yeah, that would be difficult. It's a wonder.
It's from a sand flea's perspective...
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2009-07-02 08:23 pm (UTC)
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Cool stuff, Jeff.
MattP | |
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