SPIRIT TOWER

 

I began with the construction of one Spirit House - fusing slabs of wax onto the bamboo triangle creating three tapering sides. The fourth side remaining open serves as the entrance to the descending passage terminating with a light slit along two planes of the apex. Spirit Houses were built in four ascending sizes. Spirit Tower emerged as four units suspended and separately stacked upwardly within a triangular bamboo scaffold. This Spirit Tower of bamboo into bronze was the result of learning about the International Guam Air Terminal Project from the firm of Gensler & Associates, architectural firm in San Francisco. I designed this as a forty foot water fall moving from pocket to pocket descending into a triangular reflecting pool whose bottom is patterned in black river rock. The three vertical bamboo legs of bronze terminate in polished stone footings. The Guam project suffered great loss and delay due to volcanic eruption and typhoon. We lost track of each other. I still see through the maquette a great water statement for a grand space.