Imagine a forest waterfall. You might picture a scene like Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole’s “Kaaterskill Falls” of 1826, from Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. (Daniel Wadsworth was one of the English-born artist’s friends and patrons.) From the mouth of a cave behind the shimmering falls, one views autumn-tinged woods; rain from a dark cloud echoes the cascade tumbling into fast-flowing Spruce Creek.
And now for something completely different. If you were the late sculptor Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), raised in a Native community in Wisconsin, you might conceive “Waterfall VIII” (as he did in 2011), in which yards-long, closely spaced strips of bare wood shower from brackets that step up toward the ceiling.
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Posted November 16 by Richard Selden
CT Examiner