ders that float through the skies in aerial flight events he has
organized since the 1970s. His lifelong work began through an
constructions. These Sky Sculptures utilize metallic panels supported
by helium-inflated tubes of sizes up to 100 ft.long. Each launch event
is an ephemeral response to the atmospheric conditions found at that
select time and site.
ties, festivals and contemporary art museums. He was never satisfied with
attempts of translating his Sky Sculpture events into gallery settings through
photographs, maps or drawings, but recently, Woody has employed a high-
technology laser computer program that has. The program constitutes a
laser etching-imagery process, which produces thousands of dots into a crys-
tal stone that make up an image of the panel surfaces floating in space.
by a 30 person launch team. The serpentine sky carpet undulated and
responded to the energies flowing through a shifting space block above the
launch site at the International Sculpture Conference.
of South Carolina since 1994. Woody began his work in welding, aluminum
and bronze castings, fiberglass and mixed media. -Douglas Singleton
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