As Far as the Eyes Can See, 2020

Dear friends and colleagues,

I wanted to share with you a new public project in Lubbock, Texas. As Far as the Eyes Can See is a site-specific sculpture commissioned for the newly renovated Weeks Hall at Texas Tech University. 

Two colossal rings of rough-cut granite stone are placed near and parallel to each other. They are made of recycled curbstone from old cities and roads. A branch made of Cor-ten weathering steel hovers above the stone rings connecting to them at their apex forming a canopy. From a distance it is an object and an image, but as we enter the sculpture it becomes architectural and spatially engaging. 

The twin stone circles suggest wheels, movement and physical motion, but can also be read metaphorically representing the circles of natural cycles. The stone rings remind us of two massive frames that offer alternating views of the surrounding landscape. The sculpture becomes a lens into and out of the campus inspired by the curiosity of inquisitive minds, asking students to look further than the limits they see before them. 

Ilan Averbuch