Stone Time Line 

The Summer Solstice, the year’s longest day, is a whispered promise from the cosmos that light will always conquer the dark. It is nature standing still, allowing the golden warmth to soak into the soil and our souls, urging us to radiate our own brilliance before the year turns again.

Stone Time Line is an outdoor installation which I did in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in the high Canadian Arctic. This is the most northerly civilian settlement, and the most northerly Canadian island. At high noon, on the Summer Solstice, in 1980, I placed seven stones, each one at the end of the shadow cast by the previous one. Hence the name, Stone Time Line.

I was represented by Fiterman Fine Arts in Minneapolis where I had several individual art exhibits. The director of the gallery, Dolly Fiterman, purchased several of my works for her collection which included pieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and many by Robert Rauschenberg. A decade ago, she invited art curators from St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, to pick out pieces to add to their permanent collection. They chose three of my works Stone Time Line, Ritual / Solstice and Creative Thoughts / Tango.

When I asked the curator why she chose my pieces, she stated that the visual elements were exceptional, as was the philosophic content.

Why choose a Warhol, when you can have a Plioplys? Why, indeed!

 Visual transformations of Stone Time Line were the visual basis for subsequent art works Creative Thoughts / Tango and Ritual / Solstice.

Wishing you all the best for this glorious day and for the upcoming year.

Ritual / Solstice