60 bikes later...



This is a 1946 Dodge pick up truck. Well, its what i think one would look like . I built this one from snow at Stowe Mountain Resort overnight on the 25 of March. Heidi, Becca, Anissa and her kids and Sandy helped. There may have been a snowball fight too ..



The Stowe Reporter got 4 phone calls about the mysterious patterns appearing again in the fields around Stowe Village. Concerned citizens... and all.

Off Barrows road, Stowe Highschool fields, March 2007.





Grocery Cart Arch build for the Champlain Valley Fair.2007

Tourists stop every day to look at the stone lops. unfortunately, they do knot imagine that their souvenier stones are actually important. Each of these arches gets rebuilt just about every year, due to people taking home slivers of stone.

This piece was built with a student from Yestermorrow Design School, to study how arches work and waht is involved in making one which is stable.

I worked with Russ Bennett and a team of falg installers wo put 3808 white flags on the State House lawn this fall. I went back later in the day and made wreathes around the flags in the leavesunde rthe maple trees. I received phone calls from around the world from friends who saw my photo in the papers and on the news.

We must remember those who have given their lives to support our freedom, even when we do not support the war they are fighting.

I was invited to Phoenix Az to build balance sculptures, the money from this trip is financing a journey for my whole family to go to Paris.

Built for Fortune 500 type people at the JW Marriott in Desert Ridge Az. 2007

"A Little Screwy". Built for the Helen Day Art Center's 2005 Summer show "Exposed!".

Bike arch Stowe, Vermont Exposed! Art show Summer 2006

Hot Carts First place, outdoor sculpture. SEABA 2006

We ended up moving this sculpture... though i thought it was the best looking of its kind. I've sworn off building these types of arches.

big healthy carrot sticks summer 2006

Yes, these are grocery carts, and yes, i did have permission to use most of them. These were the entry way for a show space at 2005 SEABA show at Recycle North in Burlingtons' South End. There were two big barrels full of burning wood and with the night and all the festivities, it was quite spectacular. It's 6'6" clear under the bottom cart and about 20 feet wide over all.. so it made the perfect entry way for the festival. i wanna put them all over the country in store parking lots.

This is the second cart arch that i built. It was built for an art show that i was 'forced' to put up by my friend Leila Bandar who is the Sculpture director at Johnson State College. I had two months to compile a collection of pieces for this interior space.. so i took all my recycling and built it into structures... it was fun, and took a lot more time than i thought to organize. Theres no way it could have been completed without Leilas tireless help and positive energy.

This is the first arch I ever but the second time I built it.. Translation: I spent all summer 2002 inventing the arch, testing it and bulding and rebuilding and shaping these marble stones into this structure.You can see one of the photos of it in the grass in the 'sculpture gallery'. At that time my studio was a 'free fill lot' in Waterbury. I went every day after work and hammered the stones into shape. I built the arch there as a test and transported it in my Jetta to Burlington, where i built it again. and now, in its third evolution is in a private garden in the North End. I ended up needing new shocks and struts... and was jurried into the SEABA show among the top 20 pieces.

12 Orange flags. Built for the Art Hop 2007. Photo by Robyn Alvin 2007

Remember. 12 orange flags. Photo by Robyn Alvin 2007

The Full Circle Built at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. Built of 5 Tons of stone over three days, and at the expense of my fingers' skin for the next three weeks. This was my first full circle and lived for one full year at the studio center. I transported it home with my friend Ian Howe and rebuilt the same stone into the Appletree Arch.

"Crossroads" SEABA Art Show summer 2003.

This is "Crossroads" its two completely independent arches which intersect and fold through eachother without being supported by one another. Very hard to do. I loved building her.

"The Junk in my Trunk" art show at Dibden Gallery at Johnson State College in Johnson Vermont. These pieces were all put together from the recycling i had stored in my barn and some ideas i had from natural forms i'd seen out in the woods...

When all else fails, transportation of sculptures falls on my little steady car. I love my car. This is an 8' wide full circle of 2 liter soda bottles.

"Just Good" SEABA Art Show South Burlington VT. 2004. The stone from this arch has now been reworked as the base for a sign for The Warren House Restaurant, www.thewarrenhouse.com

This arch stone collection was used 9 times to create an arch that failed. 9 times it fell to the ground. i changed the design to be a full circle instead of a nine foot long arch and left it as 'Just Good'.

Just Peace Stowe, Vermont

These are pizza boxes that I borrowed from all but one of the local pizzarias. I really had fun working with recyclable things. we take so much from this earth. I wanted to show that these can be used again for something. I'm sure we can live on earth without stripping it of all its resources.

This is "A Little Screwy". Built for the Stowe Exposed! Art Show, the summer of 2005. I took it home after the art show and built it into the Third arch in the Tripple flip.

January 28, 2006 Field of Dreams. Stowe Village, Vermont

Feb. 10, 2006 Field of Dreams the second time... working with snow is a fussy thing.. it melts and more falls.. the spirals were too pretty to not see again.. so i walked two hours through the next fresh snow and these came out. Stowe Village, Vermont

Feb 10, 2006 Look Ma! No hands!

Feb 10, 2006 Look Ma! No hands! In the woods.



Yes, Its about the junk in my trunk... no not really. Life is about having fun. Greg McLelland got the call to fun on a cold and blustery day in the spring. Ask him sometime about the fish, about what a nice day it was, and Morphine. He took this photo and deserves the credit for this sculpture going up. Without him, I'd be lost.

This is me whamming away with my favorite hammer. Its called Garfield cause its fat and likes lasagna. I thought it was the best thing invented, till i swung my friends 40 lb. maul. Now i have hammer envy.

"Cheese!" this is my face i make when i've just swallowed a chipmunk.

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