This summer I was invited to create artworks at Bonnaroo, (the largest music festival in North America), which attracts 100,000 people to a 702-acre farm outside Manchester, TN. I was brought out by Clean Vibes, a waste-hauling company that also promotes recycling through education. I spent two weeks working on site; beginning by creating art from recycled trash barrels for the Clean Vibes booth, and ending up working for the festival who asked me to design a stage. I created 15-foot-tall steel drum totems for either side of the Solar Stage, (the only of Bonnaroo's seven stages powered by solar energy), and painted a 20-foot banner that went across the top. This gallery shows the unfinished barrels in progress and winds up with the finished stage in action...
I then went to New Mexico to make art at the Taos Solar Music Festival in Taos, NM. I found a large piece of sheet metal in the desert outside Taos and painted it next to the main stage during the course of the festival. I also placed huge sculptures ("the Sun King" and "the Peacock Goddess") on either side of the stage. These photos show the progression of the painting during the festival...
Following the Solar Fest I left all of the art at Envision Gallery, Taos, where I have a show called "Found Steel". Here is the work inside and outside Envision...
