Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: 1992-1993

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Black and white photograph of a zigzagging concrete wall rising and falling in front of planted earth mounds and small evergreen trees on a college campus. The photograph shows the front view of “8 Waves,” a landscape artwork by landscape architect Robert C. Hoover, Fall 1992-Spring 1993, where eight parallel, wave-like ridges of shaped and planted earth run alongside a paved walkway at Northern Maine Technical College, Presque Isle, Maine. Along the near edge, a continuous concrete retaining wall follows the exact contour of the waves, forming a repeated series of smooth triangular peaks and troughs that echo the rising and falling mounds behind it. Arborvitae evergreens are planted along the crest line of the earth waves, their vertical forms punctuating the horizontal flow of the ridges and connecting the wall visually to the planted berms. In the background, low brick campus buildings, light poles, and a distant water tower situate the earthwork within the broader institutional landscape. 1994. Unidentified, photographer. (See p17054-p17059)(NA4800.)

Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) (1990-1995) was a nationwide survey that ran from 1990-1995 documenting America’s outdoor sculpture. Established in 1990, SOS! helped educate local communities about America’s endangered sculptural heritage. The Maine Arts Commission was one of 106 organizations to participate in this survey.

Topic

Sculpture

Collection

MF161

Series Number

NA4800

Identifier

p17055

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Existence and Location of Originals

Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.

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