Richard Edelman (www.edelmansculpture.com) and I have been working together for a while now, in our contract we had agreed to 2 videos. This was to be the second video shoot. My plan was to create a teaser video of his premiere piece, the Big Dancer. This sculpture was quite awkward to move being 15 ft tall and around 600 lbs.
At 3 am, the alarm clock buzzed. I grabbed my photo equipment and got into my truck. I picked up Huck, my assistant and friend and headed to Richard's house. We arrived at 3:45, loaded up the trailer and headed out to the frozen beaches of Sheboygan WI. After the arrival, it took 4 guys to lift this piece over a steep 30ft ice encrusted hill down a valley and onto chunks of ice just above the freezing water of lake michigan. All of this done in darkness. all of us were exhausted but as soon as we erected the Big Dancer, all of us dashed for our cameras. Each shot was setup just in the nick of time before the sun came out. From that point on we shot the sculpture until darkness that evening.
Below are some of those shots taken on that day. The movie will be posted shortly.
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