About this Sculpture
- Artist: Ken Thompson
- Medium: Concrete
- Size: 168" x 14" x 88"
Inverted Arch
About the Artist
Ken has been making sculpture for over twenty-five years, his major focus is on large scale public sculptures, installed in Ohio and Michigan and other states. Using a variety of materials, he fashions huge, elemental pieces that dominate their space. This 3D aspect of sculpture is part of the reason he loves it.
“It has a presence,” he says. “It’s undeniable. It’s going to take up space, it’s going to block your way, it’s going to make you take a different path.”
Beyond that, he loves sculpture’s durability, the process of creating it and its tactile quality.
“You really can’t go up and touch a painting but you can go up and touch a sculpture, and you’re going to see so much more with your fingers than you do with your eyes.”
Location
52 Bayou St #22, Douglas, MI 49406
Experience this Sculpture
Walk around the sculpture
- What is the major shape you notice?
- How do you think Thompson created this inverted arch?
- Most limestone blocks are straight. To create circular form takes a lot of precision and skill.
Move your eyes from one side of the arch to the other.
- The rhythm and motion of this almost circle is upbeat.
- Each end of the arch is pointing upward.
- Think of music that relates to the movement.
View the sculpture from the side.
- This dimension of the Arch is very thin.
- It is intriguing to see the work from this angle. It shows a different structure altogether.
