DESIGN NEW ENGLAND
Dancing with Nature
by Lori Ferguson, July/August, 2015
“The activities of my youth contributed greatly to my development of spatial
awareness and appreciation of the laws of physics”…
awareness and appreciation of the laws of physics”…
Growing up on the Connecticut shores of Long Island Sound, artist George Sherwood spent countless hours on a sailboat with his father, plying the waters and learning the interplay of natural elements. “My dad was a keen observer,” Sherwood says. “He was always pointing out little things that indicated an impending change in the wind or the weather, and I found it fascinating. He used the wind and water to sail, and today I use these same elements to create sailboats on land with my sculpture. I use the wind to make waves, the waves to move the light, and the light to move the viewer.”
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