Bill Botzow is a visual artist living in Pownal, Vermont. His work includes sculpture, installations, collaborations, performance, painting, drawing, and environmental projects. He has exhibited regionally and nationally for over thirty years, creating work for sculpture parks, arboretums, school grounds, parades and town squares as well as rivers, forests, fields, old mills, museums and churches.

Believing that artists' actions can show why specific places are worth caring about, his goal is to connect people to places so that they will value those places. Botzow's projects offer positive ways to interact with the environment.

The sculpture to be created specifically for "In Balance/Imbalance": Sculptural components arranged around a tall somewhat flexible pole will shift with weather conditions and/or peoples' interactions to find a balance (or not) between gravity, friction, and wind. The components will consist of various sized three dimensional lattices of scraped maple fabricated off site. The 3D lattices will be flexibly and securely fastened to the pole on site to encourage some movement and the pole will be set in the ground. The sculpture connects to the exhibitions theme by exploring random movement, balance and interaction with people.

"Under Twenty" evolved from "Swirl", 2002 (left) a sculpture designed to rotate and rise and fall in the vortex line of an eddy in the Hoosic River.

UNDER TWENTY, maple saplings, rope fasteners, 2002.

Photos: Dennis Grady[Under Twenty], Bill Botzow [Swirl]