Jerome Harris Parmet
Coming Together
2006
Welded, Painted Steel
3 components: 115" x 32" x 24"; 98" x 38" x 24”; 104" x 32" x 27”
First Subdivision of Shoreby Hill, Conanicus Ave, Jamestown RI 02835
PARKING LOCATED AT EAST FERRY ON CONANICUS AVE.
GPs: 41.4992, -71.36675
Installation generously supported by Lydia Biddle Cotter
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About the work:
Coming Together was inspired by absorbing the tenets of a religious group that placed ethical ideals, community responsibility, and strength to perpetuate as goals. The representational figures earnestly bend inward toward each other, each respectful of the other's differences, in a dialogue meant to inspire the beauty of sharing. One figure's body wears an open circle to permit evolving ideas to pass into the group's embrace of the unknown future.
About the artist:
In over 20+ years of creating sculpture I have found it personally revealing that upon completion of a series of works, I tend to move on to create another but dissimilar grouping of works but for me, there’s an exquisite joy in exploration. Seeking out new formats, styles and directions for my next series is a new challenge and another learning experience. My medium, however, is always the same, steel.
For the past year or so, I have been focused on the rounded form. Working to create rounded objects is perhaps more difficult when the artist is as hands-on as I am but part of the enchantment with the material itself is fine tuning the imaginative possibilities and diversity of steel, discovering in each experiment more than I had ever expected. In fact, my entire career in steel has focused on the surprising malleability and flexibility of what to the novice might appear a cold, unfriendly material. For me, it is called a constant discovery and fresh ideas.
Special thanks to the First Subdivision of Shoreby Hill