camo pill bottle across the street from 2 public art installations
The Gathering was completed in collaboration with students and staff from the Oasis Center and community volunteers. In 2013 the Oasis Center donated the sculpture to the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and relocated to Edmondson Park in 2014.
Supported by the Ancestors is about honoring the use of materials and the people who used those materials. I was honored to be able to celebrate the life and work of Nashville's William Edmondson, alongside the work of my friend Thornton Dial. I thought a lot about the way our ancestors used materials and how they worked those materials. When I first stood on the land that is Edmondson Park, I could see the state capital building off in the distance. I thought about the work that went into erecting that building. From the stone in the quarry and the quarrymen, to the architects and the masons who built it and all the workers along the way, it took great effort. I wanted to honor all of those workers and that labor. I wanted to honor all the workers, dead and alive, who made buildings that don't stand up high on the hills, whose buildings may not still be standing
