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Artist/Creator (1)	Miss, Mary (born 1944)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	environmental artist, sculptor
Title/Caption	Field Rotation
Date of Work	1981
Description of View	Overview, aerial with horizon. [Aerial view showing sculpture in its setting]
Notes	Sponsor/Developer: This work is part of Governor State University's permanent collection. [Commissioned by the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, GSU Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts] Project Description: Located on a remote four-acre site, this work consists of a geometrically-shaped 10-foot-deep pit, reinforced by wooden planks and containing a latticework hub of wooden beams and planks. Radiating from the pit are rows of wooden posts, which fan out into the adjacent field in a pattern which appears to make the artwork spin. This project is also included in [Art On File's] collection, Chicago: A Survey of Contemporary Public Art, with the addition here of aerial views. Field Rotation is a site-specific work, located on a gradually sloping farmland site near the central campus building of Governor State University. Miss created a four-sided star-shaped, ten-foot deep pit, reinforced with wooden planks and containing a latticework hub of wooden planks and beams. At the center of the pit is a well with a metal structure protruding from it. Radiating from the pit are rows of wooden posts which fan out into the adjacent field in a pattern which makes the artwork appear to spin like a pinwheel. The posts are all cut to the same grade. The work is bordered on two sides by an Osage Orange hedgerow, planted during the time the site was used as a farm. The hedgerow serves as both a boundary line and windbreak. This work accentuates the openness of the site. Visitors are encouraged to directly participate with it, by means of several ladders with which to climb into the pit. Of the three metal towers constructed of black pipe, one protrudes from the well, the second is inside the pit, and the third is located on the edge of the pit. Project History: This work is part of Governor State University's permanent collection. Louis Manilow provided the funding for this project, and has supported and selected other major sculptural works at Governor State University.
Technique/Process	sculpture
Materials/Medium	wood, steel, gravel, grass, earth water
Dimensions	Site: 4 acres. Outside the sculpture 125 wooden poles radiate outward in 8 lines
Century	20th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	University Park, Illinois (United States)
Location.Current Repository	Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park [Governors State University]
Subject	Sculpture, American Sculpture, 20th Century Environmental art Public art
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	New Directions in Public Art: Part I
Set/Project Author(s)	ART on FILE, 2000
Reference Number	Art on File PAI-5(5)-1
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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