Rock Garden Installation
Located at the artist's home in Sonora, California, and representing two decades of physical labor and thousands of rocks moved, Hay's Rock Garden Installation is the crowning achievement of his artistic life. An avid gardener who loved physical work, Hay built this both out of an inner necessity to work with the land on which he lived as well as a testing ground for sculptural techniques that he had planned for a large-scale public art project at the Harvard Mine in Jamestown, California, though the development eventually fell through due to permit problems.
Using stone from the tailings of an old goldmine upon which Hay's property rests, historic metal pieces, metal and ceramic forms of his own Butterly and Acrobat designs, granite, and more, Hay worked on this unfinished project from 2002 until his health declined. It remains a testament to his endless will to innovate, his love of land, and his long wish to create a large-scale sculptural site able to instill awe and wonder in viewers, much like the ancient ruins of civilizations across the world that inspired his own architectural aesthetics.
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