Wilsey Road Project; proposal ideas 2025
"SISYPHEAN HOLIDAY (Portals and Passages)", 12-6"h x12'-6"w x4"d
https://www.johnvanalstine.com/Wells_Garden.htm
Front Yard Site
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Pond Site
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Gaurd Dog Site
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small bronze
"SISYPHEAN CIRCLE-COVID IV: The Long Arc Of Covid Bends Toward the Truth" ** 4-2020, riverstone/bronze, 9.5"h 29"w x6"d (24 x73 x15cm)
unique - available
https://www.johnvanalstine.com/docs/SisyCir_Covid-IV_TheLongArc_T-20-17.htm
** Title is homage to the quote often credited to Martin Luther King "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bents toward justice" .
In fact this quote has a layered framework established in the 19th century. Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister and prominent American Transcendentalist born in 1810 called for the abolition of slavery. In 1853 a collection of “Ten Sermons of Religion” by Parker was published and the third sermon titled “Of Justice and the Conscience” included figurative language about the arc of the moral universe: |