Arch, 2006
standard steel components, brass hardware, wooden bases, collected/donated trophies
Installed in a walkway between two doors, often filled with a line to the nearby theatre’s box office. The work includes my own childhood trophies and trophies donated by Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Arturo Palacios, Scott Ramirez, Ashley Cross, Robert Baskin, Goodwill and the West Austin Youth Association.
144″ x 96″ x 34″

Greg Cross cut and glued the bases. Bonnie Cross stained them. Maritsa Asghari, Aaron Ward, Aaron Castillo, Travis Austin, Edith Whittsitt, Terra Goolsby, Robert Baskin, and Arturo Palacios helped install. Due to a last minute safety concern by the Theatre Director at the Dougherty Arts Center, additional bases were constructed the night before the Open Doors Collective’s In Between opening to fit under the original bases increasing the height by 12 inches.

The work is designed to be easily dismantled into pieces for travel.

Installation Views
Right side
Right side (detail)
Detail

arch (side view), 2006

arch, 2006 (detail)

arch, 2006 (detail)