Nautical Gilguy
- Title
- Nautical Gilguy
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Sculpture, Abstract Wood-carvers Wood-carving Wood sculpture Woodwork Woodworkers Wood sculpture (visual work) woodcarving maple (wood) ash (wood) cherry (wood)
- Creator
- Moore, William (Bill)
- Description
- A wooden sculpture with round recessed edges on the top of the second platform. The top of the sculpture shows a nautical-themed round object, attached by three "legs" or sections that appear to be carved from a single piece of wood. There are also three wooden bolts that may attach the middle piece to what looks like a bottom base. William Moore; nautical gilguy; 24x22x6 inches; maple ash cherry The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
- View
- front
- Location
- Oregon Department of Transportation >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 800 Airport Road S. E., Salem Oregon
- Award Date
- 1982
- Identifier
- 1987_salem_dot-materials-lab_11_a01
- Item Locator
- MOO:87-15
- Accession Number
- 1987_salem_dot-materials-lab_11_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Moore, William (Bill)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 24 x 22 x 6 inches
- Material
- Sculpture; Wood carving; maple, ash and cherry
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1987 Salem Department of Transportation Materials Lab 1987_salem_dot-materials-lab
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- Entry lobby
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- The sculpture Nautical Gilguy is the largest sculpture in a series of pieces exploring an interest in machinery and the potential of the lathe for making sculptural form. When I was in high school I took classes in Mechanical Drawing for four years. One of the types of drawings we were assigned to do were cut away drawings of machine parts. I was and am intrigued by how these drawings reveal a greater sense of the form and make what might otherwise be ordinary forms quite interesting. The central form of the sculpture was turned on the lathe, out apart and reassembled with the two parts reoriented to each other. I found that by laying the two halves back to back and rotating one away from the other around the central axis, the pieces took on the machine-like qualities of my mechanical cutaway drawings, as well as evoking a distinctly nautical character. Since my intent was to create a machine-like image but not any specific nautical object, the title "gilguy" which is the nautical term for "thingamajig" was apt. (Moore, 1987)
