After creating two bike racks for the NKCDC, I fell in love with the concept of creating this kind of function art. I started to seek out other areas that might want an artrack. At this time, The East Falls Development Corporation (EFDC), in Philadelphia, PA sent out a call to artists to create several eco-art fish to install through out the area. This made me immediately think BIKERACK! I called straight away to see if a bike rack would fit into the criteria of the project. They loved the idea so I started plugging away to get a proposal together for them.
Catfish bikerack proposal: to create a linear sculpture that incorporates a variety of scrap metal pieces, including farm equipment, pipe and rebar.
Like all of my work, Catfish is about creating a fluid movement with lines that directs your eye around the sculpture. My goal is to not only to be a source of function but my hope is that I might show people, children especially to recycle. I also secretly dream that catfish will entice the people of East Falls to ride their bikes to work or to the park so that they can use something that I made just for them. I envision kids chaining their bikes and climbing on him. (please don’t fall, ok? i only want happy smiling people around catfish.) I love the idea of beauty found in the mundane concept of a bike rack.
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- I sketch it out on the driveway and incorporate my found metal.
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- The Sketch gets graphed out so that I can transfer the image easily.
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- The image is plotted out in chalk on the shop floor.
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- I begin to create a structure following my lines.
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- I prop the piece up to decide how tall the fish will stand.
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- I cut open the scrap farm cultipacker..breathing in a few pototes with all the dust!
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- The cultipacker becomes the eyes and the fish starts to take shape.
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- the rings help to build dimentional body.
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- forming the tail
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- Dana helps me install the fish.
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- We mount the plate I had made to let people know that to park thier bikes here!
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- My new happy plate made by the great Sherry Berger!
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- Here he swims..happily looking over Inn Yards Park, East Falls!
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What a wonderful, creative design and I really love the idea of using “found” items as material for the art work! Keep up the good work, Sandy!
Love it, just hate that it isn’t with its siblings on Frankford Avenue
It could be very easily arranged for a catfish to swim onto frankford avenue!
sanny your website is AWESOME and my favorite part is seeing all of your sketches and design phases.
You go, girl!!!!!
LV les