Charles Parson - Dual

Dual by Charles Parson. 

 

I deal with connections. This sculptural work developed approximately 12 years ago is based in a stylistic approach most generally categorized as “constructivist” in its visual language; or, how things connect. Using the materials, tools, and techniques so commonly seen in the infrastructures of architecture, bridges, and the physical structural underbelly of our daily world, I assault to develop a metaphor and symbol in this work. This is of a framed, individual space, presented with two life-size vertical shafts that together create a tension and focus on the central, seemingly empty space in between them. This creates a very quiet, contained space. 

 

Conditioned in this space is a small, delicate, visual, and physical fragile phrase made with a shaft of glass, set on its edge. At certain times of the day, the edge of this glass is lit by the sunlight, giving off a vivid green glow that causes one to relook at this area yet again, contemplating. The placement of this form is made on top of an abbreviated axis of circular painted steel that is revealed immediately under a heavy plate. This thinnest position on top of a metal box-like form. This is my symbolic approach to placing the individual’s place in our culture; on a pedestal. The abstraction of this symbolic statement gives rise to multiple associations, including a roman numeral II, or a tuning fork, both with the gestalt of the forms on both sides giving rise to result in the middle, in the nothingness of this negative space. 

 

By exhibiting this work in an exterior setting, the random action of the sun striking the edges of the glass restate the use of green as a symbol of life, drawing from the exceedingly refined regional sense of what color is and conveys in the aesthetic of the great Western landscape. This green, in these occasional lit moments, further activates this lit shaft of singular space in this sculptural work. 

 

The Western aesthetic that originally drew me out to the great American West in the early 1970s still resonates with me. This sculpture is a somewhat reminiscent image of a singular totem of sorts; vertically placed in its miniscule scale, on the edge of the vast, seemingly empty space the horizon line still creates, a visual melody of reflection and contemplation to me. The poetics of this work rely on that viewing.

 

I invite you; come back again, especially in the late evening, just as dusk provides the darkening backdrop of this pure white shape, floating alone in an open sea of a solid plinth; earth. 

More of my work can be seen at www.charlesparson.com.

Sculpture in the Field
  1. Patricia Aaron - Air BnB
  2. Bill Vielehr - "Metal Response" and "Tactile Visual Continuum"
  3. Michael Clapper - Silencio
  4. Steven Shachtman - Mid Mod #9
  5. Norman Epp - Mother Rising
  6. Emmett Culligan - Oneric
  7. Erick C. Johnson - Skeeter
  8. Robert Mangold - Tetrahedralhypersphere
  9. Jodie Roth Cooper - Quarter Mile Arch
  10. Charles Parson - Tintinnabulation
  11. Charles Parson - Dual
  12. Carl Reed - Kindred Spirits
  13. Carl Reed - Braced Ring with Outlier
  14. Joe Riche - Untitled 09.06.19
  15. Joe Riche - The Doom 06.09.11
  16. Joe Norman - Faith/Doubt
  17. Scottie Burgess - Ties Forward
  18. Roger Reutimann - Common Unity
  19. Dave Mazza - Achemar
  20. Dave Mazza - Aeolus
  21. Eric McCue - Space Jack
  22. Joe Norman - Fear/Love
  23. Reven Swanson - Delicate Balance
  24. Ana Maria Botero - “Spring Line” and “Shapes of Nature”
  25. Steven J. Yazzie - Gold King & Associates
  26. Barbara Baer - "Trellis"
  27. Barbara Baer - "Waterspout"
  28. Evan Beloni - "Zagolith"
  29. Ted Schaal - "Rift"