The Salisbury Post has the story:
Most of the pieces of art making up “Discover What’s Outside,” the first downtown Salisbury sculpture show, were installed either Thursday or Friday.
After next Tuesday, all 14 pieces representing 13 different artists, will be in place and part of the downtown landscape for the next nine months.
The sculptors came together for a Friday night reception at the South Fulton Street home of Susan and Ed Norvell.
Asheville artist Robert Winkler and his wife, Arlene, dealt with steady rain Friday afternoon to install his appropriately named “Look Homeward, Angles” on the front-yard hill outside the Presbyterian Manse on West Innes Street.
The intriguing, geometric, all-cedar sculpture seems to push the limits of gravity.
“It doesn’t have a bad side, no matter where you stand,” Arlene Winkler said.
And isn’t that the mark of a good sculpture?
Salisbury Urban Planner Lynn Raker said a show can attract good pieces if sculptors know it will be well-publicized, that there will be awards offered and if it’s possible they can sell their works.
Most of the works on display in Salisbury will be available for purchase — from $2,000 to $18,000, the asking price for “Look Homeward, Angles.”
Robert Winkler, with some help from contractor Randy Goodman and his men, lifted the three 300-pound pieces of the sculpture onto the poured concrete slab at the manse Friday. Winkler determined the positioning, of course.
And so it went with the arrival of other sculptures Thursday and Friday.
The downtown is now dotted with Winkler’s piece and all kinds of other new friends, such as “Jeremiah,” Albemarle artist Roger Martin’s bullfrog lounging on a steel pedestal at North Main and East Liberty streets.