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While some projects appear to tumble directly from discussion into implementation, many of our larger installations take years of process before any ‘tangible’ work is begun. This is that unique period of dialogue and collaboration within a community of deeply involved parties – architects, landscape architects, contractors, museum directors, board members and administrators.
And what an exciting time! A process of listening to the aesthetic needs of all involved, but also, as well, regarding context and environment with a compositional eye. It is during this phase that model procedures are investigated. Color concepts considered. Layerings. New methods and techniques are developed and tested. Even the “mundane” issues of time and budget considerations bring an intriguing challenge to the creative mix.
An EnnisArt LLC project seeks to articulate the day to day in artistic, lasting ways. Perhaps a floor that truly grounds the surrounding arena of space. A mural. A mural in a floor. Walls of subtle variations. Cast prayer walls, fireplace surrounds, tables, and sculptural elements. It’s a desire to bring art into the actuality of our lives. Into our private sanctuaries and our pubic awareness.
Prayer Wall Installation, Phase II. Hospice and Palliative Care. Jack Matney Memorial Courtyard.
Presbyterian Hospital. Charlotte, NC.
Design by Tom Schulz
See more at www.Empathinc.com/PrayerWallSculpture/.
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Carl A. Fields Center.
Princeton University, Princeton NJ – Interior and exterior surfaces designed to speak the visual language of both old and new surrounding materials. All underfoot. (Samples approved, on site mock ups in process.)
Ann Beha, Architects (Scott Aqualina, Ed Rice) |
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Inter-Faith Prayer Painting Project.
Hospice and Paliative Care. Presbyterian Hospital. Charlotte, NC – A tweve foot by five foot mixed media painting on canvas offering imagery that might provide a multi-cultural, multi-faith visual opportunity to deal with the pain, conflict, sense of lose, hope and joy and need associated with the premise of Hospice and Palliative Care.
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Shady Hill School
Cambridge, MA. Art Building and Gymnasium Lobbies.
Art building floor completed. Gym mock ups completed and approved. Marvelous ochre and yellows. Machado and Silvetti aren’t afraid of color, which is just fine with me! Completion in 2009.
Machado and Silvetti, Architect (Max Moore) |
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New Britain Museum of American Art / Lander’s House Terrace
New Britain, CT. Another trip back to this award-winning museum. This time to complete the exterior surfaces. Ice and salt and perfect timing.
Downes Construction Company LLC. Ann Beha, Architects |
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Silver Springs Civic Building
Silver Spring, MD – Multiple public arenas of subtle variations of earth tones. An exciting random pattern of scored and colored in-filled lines in a skating rink! (Contract Awarded.)
Machado and Silvetti, Architects. Richard Burke and Associates, Landscape Architect |
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Weisiger Chapel Renovation
Hospice and Palliative Care. Presbyterian Hospital. Charlotte, NC. Includes modular translucent window sculpture, cast concrete altar and prayer bench, integral color plaster. Design by Tom Schulz.
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SAS Music Building Renovations
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA – Once again, Ann Beha has enbraced an existing building within a new envelope. We’re assisting with interior floors in the public areas, and access mats on the exterior. (Contract Awarded.)
Ann Beha, Architects. (Philip Chen) |
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Almetto Alexander (“I Dream of a Labyrinth”)
YMCA, McCrorey Branch. Charlotte, NC – Almetto Alexander (photographed left, with Tom Schulz) is a wonderful and highly regarded woman and member of the Charlotte community. She has a dream of creating a labyrinth that is sixty feet in diameter. She will manifest this, and we can help.
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