Sacrament, (sculpture).

Sacrament, (sculpture).

Berry, Kevin, 1961- , sculptor.

Sacrament, (sculpture).

Sculpture: bronze, rock and steel; Foundation: steel plate.

Sculpture: approx. H. 20 ft. x W. 2 ft.; Foundation: approx. W. 7 ft. x D. 7 ft. (900 lbs.).

K. S. Berry '92 signed

A rainwater collector and filtering device, consisting of a funnel-shaped cast bronze cage, full of river rocks, attached vertically to an I-beam which is welded to a heavy steel plate. Directly below the cage is the cast bronze water collector in the shape of an Indian mortar stone. The water collector is raised about three feet off the ground by three rebar legs.

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arizona -- Mesa

Mesa Community College, Maintenance Department, 1833 West Southern Avenue, Mesa, Arizona 85202

The sculpture is intended as a rainwater filter and collector. The sculpture was commissioned by the college. IAS files contain the artist's description of the project, dated June 14, 1991.

Nearby plaque reads: Kevin Berry (b. 1961, Kansas City, Missouri) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1987 from Arizona State University. Much of his work utilizes metal (usually bronze), cobbles from the Salt River and water. Berry writes of Sacrament:/"The inspiration for this piece comes from my own fascination with the Salt River bed and its history. Through this sculpture, I intend to pay homage to the Salt River, the ancient people that once thrived upon its banks, and the sacred nature of water in this desert region."/A twelve-foot long cone-shaped cast bronze cage containing an assortment of different sized, shaped and colored river rock filters rainwater which is eventually collected in a cast bronze replica of an ancient Indian mortar stone, which Berry discovered on one of his walks through the Salt River bed. "Conceptually the sculpture is supposed to purify rainwater through the rock-filled cage, trickling down into the mortar stone leaving behind a kind of holy water."

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1994.

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