Although the book has a reverence for rocks, it also writes upward to the galaxy and contemplates meditation and healing. It speaks of the winds of the spirit and understanding different tongues. It speaks of keeping the word through sculpture, poetry, and dance. It reaches down into the blue earth and up into the galaxy and feels the rhythm of the earth and the movement of dance. Nancy Baker Fate Heers Artist s Statement This recent sculpture and drawing represented in this book indicate the range and direction that my work has taken. Found forms usually mean man-made objects, but I include the stone forms I use in my pieces as found forms as well. I try to keep the qualities of the stones that attract me in tact. I am especially fond of wrought iron forms as they, from a material sense, have a simplicity and strength that relates to stone. Humor and playfulness are at times evident in my work. Many of my pieces can be manipulated and interchanged as stones are bolted to one another and, in some cases, steel springs are used as the connector. Building relationships and the association of materials and ideas plus the movability or changeability of the sculpture adds to the expressive potential of each piece. Wendel W. Heers
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Review of Last Book: "For Nancy Baker Fate Heers, poetry not only gives expression to a source of fascination, it can enter into a dialogue with another art form. She and her husband, Wendel, share a passion for rocks and the the variety of colors, textures and links to more ancient life they possess." --Bucknell World
"This willfulness makes Heers' sculpltures artfully mischievous. The University of Michigan art professor emeritus has crafted work that revels in combinations of rough and polished stone incorporating wood, rock, inset copper and wrought iron to create peculiar tableaus and other worldly creatures. Each Heers sculpture has an internal balance. The work's subtle roundness if often complemented by hand-shaped wood or metal. By harnessing natural rock as a base to work from and thereafter manipulating the secondary materials for embellishment, Heers builds a tension between motion and rest that makes his sculplture unexpectedly active." --John Carlos Cantu,Ann Arbor News
"New sculpture in stone, metal and found forms by University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Heers, whose work is described as "surprising beautiful and sometimes funny." Ann Arbor News --Ann Arbor News
"This willfulness makes Heers' sculpltures artfully mischievous. The University of Michigan art professor emeritus has crafted work that revels in combinations of rough and polished stone incorporating wood, rock, inset copper and wrought iron to create peculiar tableaus and other worldly creatures. Each Heers sculpture has an internal balance. The work's subtle roundness if often complemented by hand-shaped wood or metal. By harnessing natural rock as a base to work from and thereafter manipulating the secondary materials for embellishment, Heers builds a tension between motion and rest that makes his sculplture unexpectedly active." --John Carlos Cantu,Ann Arbor News
"New sculpture in stone, metal and found forms by University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Heers, whose work is described as "surprising beautiful and sometimes funny." Ann Arbor News --Ann Arbor News
About the Author
About the Author and Artist Nancy Baker Fate Heers attended Bucknell University and holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MA from the University of Michigan. She dances, both liturgical and modern, and writes poetry. She previously copublished Forest of Algae and Ivy Outside/in, a book of poems under the name Nancy Fate and Rock Rhythms, a book of poems by Nancy Baker Fate Heers and sculpture by Wendel W. Heers. The artist, Wendel Heers, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and studied with Kokoschka at the School of vision in Salzburg. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Michigan. They have two children, Gwendolyn Deane Fate, married to Kevin Henegar, and William Arden Fate married to Emily Lenhart Fate, and two granddaughters, Leah Fate Henegar and Isabel Claire Henegar
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By Amy (California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Keeping The Word (Hardcover)
All the beautiful poems, from Don't Tread Softly to Ruth's Beet Pickles, are thought-provoking and inspiring. The poems along with the creative/one-of-a-kind artwork is so unique and moving. I would highly recommend this book. Each time you turn the page to a new poem I feel like I'm on the farm, or in France, or in the rain or dancing until I feel free. Enjoy!
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