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Artery Sunwork 1993
Granite, bronze and stainless, 16íh x8íw x6íd

Commissioned by Artery Organization Corp and installed at their former headquarters building, Bethesda, Maryland on the outskirts of Washington, DC.

The piece is a solar calendar oriented on a north/south axis. The noon day sun creates a shadow that marks each day’s position in the yearly cycle reaching its longest point on the summer solstice, its shortest on the winter solstice.

                                                                        

                                                                         

 

                                      

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Artery Sunwork, John Van Alstine, Bethesda, MD

 

Eden, Holly, John Van Alstine

at noon - winter solstice

 

Raw stone at Berre Vermont quarry

Proposal drawings