Collagesity Developments 01

The Edwardston Station Gallery holding the entire Art 10×10 set of 100 collages, formerly hovering in the sky about the Crystal Fields, has been deleted. In its place now sits the groundside Gallery Jack holding 60 of the 100 same collages, or all collages in the series named for places within Jasper County itself (Rose Hill, Yale, Newton, Hidalgo, Wheeler, and Jasper). Gone for now are the collages of the Greenup and Oblong series making up the remainder of the Art 10×10, numbering 20 apiece. But of course they may return at any time in another setting.

Then directly beside Gallery Jack has been added the Castle of Wappo Jack, actually composed of 2 separate Moard Ling “castles” mashed together, as I’m wont to do at times. But this is peculiar: the name Wappo Jack was formerly unrelated to the name Gallery Jack, which instead originated in Jasper Newton Daniel, better known as Tennessee liquor distiller Jack Daniel. You the reader may have a bottle or three of his product in your cupboard right now.

We’ll get to a description of Jack’s Castle in a moment. Giant Wappo Jack looms over an arm of it in the below photo.

The rezzing of Gallery Jack beside Central Stream displaced the temple generated tableu of Jesus of Nazareth, which moved across the creek to settle in a green crystal nook beside the town diner. Neat fit; Boss Moss certainly blends right in.

The forum of Gallery Jack still contains statues of the Eternally Bickering Newton and Jasper. Perhaps they should sit down with each other and hash things out over a liquor drink.

Some collages of the Rose Hill series. Nice texture fit between the poking pink crystal and the collage to the right (Rose Hill 04). But the collage immediately behind the crystal will obviously have to be moved. There’s room on an adjacent wall.

Another Gallery Jack collage that had to be repositioned a bit is Hidalgo 04 (“Day of Destruction”). This is because the eastern tower of Wappo Jack’s castle actually protrudes through the walls of the gallery here, another intentional structure mashing of sorts.

The tower has stairs spiraling around its entire height. You actually have to walk through part of Gallery Jack to reach its top in this manner. At some point in its history, the tower began to serve as a lighthouse.

The western tower of the collaged castle is higher and larger in circumference, with 6 projecting, conical turrets.

Little Wappo Jack’s temple display still resides on the ground floor of the western tower, about in the same location as before when it was sheltered within a gazebo. The Castle of Wappo Jack was built around the already present display in other words.

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