A great article came out this past week, detailing Naotos sculptures in the Bethel Citizen. Viewing the article online would cost you $, so we have included it below, as well as the images they shared. Thank you Amy Chapman for sharing one of Naotos many talents: Bethel Citizen 11/20/2014, Page A01 Stone sculptures appear at Mt. Abram BY AMY CHAPMAN If you’ve driven past Mt. Abram in Greenwood recently, you may have noticed not only the newly installed array of 803 solar collectors, but also some unusual rock structures that have appeared on the opposite side of the road, beside the entrance to the main parking lot. The stone sculptures are the work of Naoto Inoue of Solar Market, the Arundel- based company that installed Mt. Abram’s solar panels. Responding by e-mail from St. Croix, where his company is currently installing solar systems, Inoue said he has been building sculptures from natural materials, mostly rocks, since 1991 as a way to find inner balance. “[It] is my way to destress and allow my mind to really focus on finding the core, center line, of the objects I am balancing, which in turn allows me to focus my internal center,” he said. Most of the sculptures he builds are on private land—many are on his own property—and Inoue said he had never been asked before what led him to create them. At Mt. Abram, he noticed rocks lying where they had been removed from the site of the solar field. “I had an urge to stand them up and show off their shapes,” he said, and he did so, with the mini-excavator that had been used to do the sitework for the solar project. “I did add more rocks, just to enhance the shapes,” he said, “mostly in between solar work when I needed to destress.” Mt. Abram General Manager Dave Scanlan enjoyed watching Inoue create the sculptures during the 19 days his company spent installing the solar array, and was especially impressed by the engineering that went into building a stone arch at the top of one structure. Asked about the future of the sculptures, he said that with ski season approaching, he wasn’t sure how long they would remain standing in their current form, due to potential liability issues. “Unfortunately, we’ll probably have to take down some of the taller piles, or at least shorten them,” Scanlan said with regret. That’s fine with Inoue, who said that when he builds stone sculptures on land that is not his own, he is fully aware that they are not permanent and may be dismantled at any time, although he added that “all of the large rock aspect of the work will take a machine or many men to knock down.” “I do not know of the fate of this work,” he said. “They may stay up for twenty plus years, as at my private residence. People may take them down. I’m OK with either path.” STX image caption: Using only hand tools, Naoto Inoue built this stone and sand sculpture on a beach in St. Croix, near where his company, Solar Market, installed a 52 KW solar project on a church. It lasted only a few days, but Inoue said, “I fully realize the stacks are not permanent.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:02:33 +0000
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