'Forest Storm No.7'

'Forest Storm No. 7' Bill Pocock, 2009

Stihl Life No. 3

'Stihl Life No. 3' Bill Pocock, 2009

One of a small series of photos posted on my art blog, Bill Pocock.

Writing two blogs at once, living separate lives.

Bill Pocock is all about the question,
"who am I, what am I, where am I, how am I, why am I?",
answered in the form of art documentation.

Storage Issues

I opened up my 'dry storage' container to discover 1/2" pool of water on the floor yesterday.

I've taken the day off my day job to discover the cause and start to fix it. I suspect it's the eaves trough run off pipe which travels along the side of the container outside of the vapour barrier. Tuck tape can only seal so much when water pools along seams.

Water damage has destroyed quite a bit of my art collection.

Gone gone gone.

Spirit Bear 2009

While I was in Burk's Falls, it was nice to take a few photos of the 'spirit bear' sculpture I made for Karen in 2006. It's a winged white bear with a wood armature and canvas skin.

'Spirit Bear' (2006) by Bill Pocock (circa 2009)

The idea was to leave it in an outside environment and the canvas skin would slowly rot away from exposure to the elements, echoing the decay of an actual bear's skin to reveal the wooden skeleton underneath. The wood skeleton (spruce and white cedar) of the sculpture would then also decay, turning to soil.

I hope to continue to photograph this sculpture as it decays into soil over time. I like its location on top of a mossy rock. The spirit bear looks down over a sloping ridge to a beautiful lake below.

Another angle of 'Spirit Bear'