King’s Fountain 2000

Water, polyvinyl chloride pipe, polyvinyl chloride sheet, irrigation emitters, plastic storage barrels.

This piece was completed during the Atlantic Center for the Arts residency with Charles Ray and Jennifer Pastor.

King’s Fountain stems from the reasons Kings and the elite built fountains for their palaces.

King’s fountains would be built to give them a place to speak in private; castles stonewalls are great for reflecting conversation.

Water, under those circumstances, was used to shroud the conversants in white noise.

So it was my desire to create a sculpture with a lyrical aesthetic that would then shroud itself in the white noise of spraying water. Secondly, this sculpture was placed in the outdoor amphitheater.

To play along with the surroundings, I gave the sculpture a theatrical performative birth-life-death cycle, which lasted every 6 minutes.