The Wheel of Time
- Title
- The Wheel of Time
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Wood-carving Wood-carvers woodcarving sculpture (visual work) cedar (wood)
- Creator
- Shriver, Totem
- Description
- A wooden sculpture with numerous half circles encircling each other. Some of the circles contain patterns or round objects. Totem Shriver; The Wheel of Time; 1999; Richardson Hall; OSU Forestry The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
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- full
- Location
- Richardson Hall >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1998_osu_forest-ecosys_01_a01
- Accession Number
- 1998_osu_forest-ecosys_01_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Shriver, Totem
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Sculpture kiln dried port orford cedar; wood carved panels
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1998-2000 Oregon State University Richardson Hall Forest Ecosystem 1998_osu_forest-ecosys
- Has Version
- photograph; black and white; documents 8 x 10
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- The panels I created for the forestry Research Building have to do with mystery. After all, what are research scientists always striving to solve? It strikes me that when one gets down to a microscopic level, life forms look similar. Natural systems are in one sense very simple, and in another complex. I have been working with shapes reflective of life mechanisms. All life forms have common denominators, so I am searching around there, poking into the mysteries, and having a good time. The piece on the first floor "" The wheel of time"" is a simple form that could reflect a cross section of a stump, or microscopic cellular mechanisms, to a forest researcher. To a layman it could be an interesting abstract shape with plenty of mystery. To me the shapes are organic and poetic. Like a good poem it leaves you hanging there contemplating what it is you are feeling. The double panels on the 2nd and 3rd floor lounge area are called ""Ecoysmos"". A made up word that combines ecology and cosmos. Ecology is the science of relationships between organisms and their environment. Cosmos is the universe seen as a orderly harmonious whole. These panels are reflective of organisms of various wonderment's, all intermingling together into one harmonious whole. A chance to look holistically at an environment. I choose Port Orford Cedar not because it is an easy wood to carve (it presented it's own challenges), but because it a native Oregon wood, a wood that along with it's aromatic smell is about as exotic as we get in the Pacific Northwest, and finally it is a species in peril that should be saved if for no other reason than for it's shear beauty. Forest ecology, soil protection, and biodiversity are essential for future generations to experience and enjoy a harmonious whole environment. (Totem Shriver, 1999)
