Autumn
Steel, cement
30' x 32' x 2"
2004

Autumn was commissioned for Accessibility 2004, an annual public art exhibition coordinated by the Sumter County Cultural Commission in Sumter, SC.. To read the text that describes the landscape of South Carolina in the fall, the viewer must follow the words, which wind between the tall pines that stand beside the Sumter County Library. These lines were composed by Sumter author, Julia Mood Peterkin, for her controversial Pulitzer Prize winning, 1928 novel, Scarlet Sister Mary.

"The morning air was filled with delicious scents.
Ripe leaves, fragrant weeds, fresh cotton blossoms and the breath of the dark red earth itself.
Summer was over."