Tower Song Ted Bieler

Ted Bieler
Tower Song, 1997
Aluminum, 762 x 180 x 210 centimetres

Shapes that embody the gesture of a line drawn freehand in space oscillate between the walls of a spiralling cruciform obelisk. Interest in the interplay of formal and random elements in nature is reflected in this sculpture. The spiral of life, found in plant, mineral and animal life, twists its way up Tower Song, suggesting potentially infinite progressions of form ascending upward, descending into the ground below or branching out from it.

The sculptor's fascination with ancient monuments, those of the Maya and the Incas in particular, highlights the art of marking a place by delineating a point of view, a view that here embraces the free flow of a river at the crossing between two metropolises.