Interstellar Object
Interstellar Object
Robert Coon
Vero Beach, FL
Aluminum
16' x 5' x 4'
$28,000
"It is ironic that I must write about my work to tell the viewer that my sculpture is not, nor was ever intended to be verbal. We are verbal creatures. Many of us speak one language, some speak several languages, and a few speak many languages. In either case, we all use words to communicate in our everyday world, indeed in our everyday thoughts. However, we are also visual creatures...nearly all use, in truth... depend on, our visual sense and visual sensibilities every day...every waking minute. The irony is that we seldom have a real need to translate the visual into the verbal. My sculpture is conceived, "seen" by me, as shapes, textures, and colors, that is, arrangements of these elements in a three-dimensional form.
"This sculpture is from a series that developed in the 1990's each with one or more elements pointing upward, or out of our sphere. Since my work is truly one of a kind...I used this idea to say that there is only one of these in the galaxy... and this is it. It soon follow in my thinking that this could be an InterStellar Object. I hope that the viewer can approach my work with an eye and mind that "looks for" visual interests and that sees an object that is whole, and appealing, and perhaps a little exciting."