“Time Sharing”.
Corten steel.
Permanent installation Riverfront Green , Peekskill.
The sculpture is a steel house, approximately 12 x 12 x 8 feet, on a rolling bar, positioned in such a way that it looks as though the house has been pushed ashore -- the first step on its way inland.
The house, installed at the location where the first immigrants in the area landed, is a symbol of lives, homes, families and memories being moved -- not only from one place to another, but across centuries .The struggle of the transition from one culture to another is reflected in the awkwardness of the house balancing on only one bar. Moving it seems impossible. This is underscored by the heaviness of the weathering steel.
The title “Time Sharing” references to the belief of the American Indians that nobody could own the land or the water and that we are only temporary custodians of this world and just passing through.
As a real estate term, "time sharing" means sharing ownership of a house, allowing purchasers to occupy it during a specified period of time each year. Because it was clear from the beginning that the realization of this project depended on the support of many, I fabricated a series of maquettes of the sculpture in three sizes. The money from the sale of the maquettes was used to finance the fabrication of the large-scale sculpture.