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Thank you.

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This is a piece that I built about three years ago.

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Originally the seltzer was designed to go along the lakefront.

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Hence the low forms back there where water was going to break across the forms, that sort

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of thing.

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It was designed to go parallel with the water.

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And if you were out on a lake and you wanted to look more, looking back to shore, you'd

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see the interaction of the forms.

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Or if you were on shore looking up, you'd see the interaction of the water.

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The piece is made out of the same material as the Picasso, which is a porcelain seal,

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double-sided and arc-rolled.

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These are works that are extremely difficult and the best competition to install.

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And we have to think of it more as a mechanical effort.

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And maybe some very sophisticated work for me.

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But in general, I think one of the things that show life, what it can do, is to bring

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people from high to low, and to bring them to the surface.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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And I think that's the key to the work.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Stop!

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That was not my fault!

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I was only rescuing you.

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Are we ready?

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We're moving.

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Watch your hands.

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Come on!

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Stop!

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That's a good choice!

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It was a lot of, it was really, it was a lot skinnier than I thought it was going to be.

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But it was neat.

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Let's enjoy them.

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It's awesome.

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Let's take it to the...

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It's fantastic.

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What? What did you say?

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What's going on in there? What happens?

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You just get stuck into these teeny little claustrophobic spaces.

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That's about it. And you have to discover when you're going to be able to get out.

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And if you make it go too far, you'll get into another claustrophobic space and be stuck.

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That's the story.

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Well, it's a pleasure to be in the show, and I think this is a really big boost for Illinois and for the whole scene in Chicago for sculpture and for art.

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I'm Pearlman, and this is my sculpture, Big Diamond, which was made especially for the Chicago mile of sculpture and the art fair.

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And it's real exciting for me to be here and be able to make a piece this big and have all the Chicago sculptors set it up for me and then come out here and take a bow.

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But it's a wonderful opportunity for a sculptor to make a piece this big.

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We made it in a steel yard in Brooklyn, New York.

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People named Red Hook Fabricators built it from a model, and I worked with them every day and supervised it.

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Then it came out here on a flatbed truck, and Barry Tinsley and Bruce White helped set it up, and here I am.

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But these are the kind of things you can't do alone. You have to have lots of help, and sculptors really help each other.

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This is Marty Margulies, who's a great sculpture collector, great art collector, and has several pieces of mine and has lots of sculpture.

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Thank you.

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I enjoyed the event because it gave me an opportunity to watch people enjoying my sculpture to see probably more people viewing my sculpture at any one time than I may see viewing it, say, in several years.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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This piece is a program electronics, kinetics, light, sound piece, and it's called Navy Pier.

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It's more of a symbolic action than really light and sound that the viewer first recognizes or sees.

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So you're asked to get an idea about what the movement and what the act of the lights and sounds are about.

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In this case, it's somewhat obvious that it represents the flow of the water coming in and going out and maybe a sunrise.

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The piece has various capabilities. It's set for this show to be somewhat tranquil, but it does have the ability to be very violent, storm-like.

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My name is Tom Gibbs. This is my sculpture, a steel sculpture called Obelisk, the third, excuse me, the third Obelisk.

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And can you hold it there a while? Well, I think it's something here. That thing's stop and start.

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Let's go!

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I'm driving a car. Really?

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And thank you for listening.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Most fascinating evenings I've ever seen because, as you know, tonight, this is the largest extravaganza in Chicago.

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And that we are, oh, hello. Bill, this is one of the largest extravaganza, oh, hello, Bill.

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This is one of the largest extravaganza in Chicago. As you know, this is the largest extravaganza in Chicago in a long time.

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Here out in Navy Pier in Chicago, thousands of people.

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I'm real happy to be in the show, very pleased. I'm Mike Bauer, and this is my sculpture, which I call Passage, but I call a whole lot of things Passage.

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They deal with movement, going from one place to the other. And this show is very exciting. I'm happy to be in Chicago this day and time, but I moved up here.

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It's not that I'm uncomfortable sitting here talking about this stuff, it's just that I don't talk much about it.

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I'm enjoying the art mile of sculpture and the art fair here in Chicago. It's a pleasure to be a part of it.

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And my own sculpture to be here is very nice. This particular piece is a variation of a larger piece which I'm making for Columbus, Ohio, which will be 18 feet across and 30 feet high.

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And I hope that people here can enjoy this version. The other piece is in stainless, this one is painted. It's for Mount Vernon Plaza in Columbus, Ohio.

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Celebrations are good, but art celebrations are all the better.

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It's about getting involved and interacting with the piece.

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Our society has been raised, don't touch this, don't touch that, don't get involved, apathy, stay away. I hope to break that barrier.

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Find out what it's like to participate. Enjoy yourself. Find out what it's like to be here.

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Because that one you can get in and feel comfortable and feel confined. This one you're on the outside.

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You have to be aware of it and still very cautious of it. Because it's aggressive and playful at the same time.

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And yet the one out at the pier is very playful and protective at the same time.

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Well, I think I'm really pleased to be here tonight at the opening of the Mile of Sculpture and Art 82 Chicago.

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So I think for me it's a really special event. It has potential for bringing to Chicago again and again an amazing kind of array of sculpture, the likes of which could not be seen anywhere else.

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Who knows, it's nice to be in your film. We'll be seeing you in the store. That's enough.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.