boats - metal sculpture by Trace Meek

Metal Boats

1999, welded and brazed steel with gathered objects

Originally entitled Midnight Freight. This installation, which debuted at Berkshire Artisans Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, featured thirty-three boats, each filled with a symbolic cargo, converging upon a single opening in a steel arch bridge. An adaptation of this installation appeared in Living with the River, a juried group show held at the Canal Gallery in Holyoke, MA from May through the end of Summer 2001.

boats - metal sculpture by Trace Meek

The foreground boat transports fallen Cottonwood branches.