Aya

Foon Sham’s 15 foot tall sculpture twists upward to resemble a faceted tower inspired in part by his exposure to Southwestern architecture. By stacking and interlocking segments of cherry and walnut, Sham created an intricate, three-dimensional composite sculpture. While joinery began as a practical construction technique, in the late 1990s Sham began enjoying the joinery’s compositional and aesthetic possibilities. Sham created several acrylic and pastel drawings to develop his ideas for this commission. Writ No. 1 was selected and transformed into this monumental sculpture, which was installed in Bennett Park’s publicly accessible Art Atrium in 2007.

Learn more about Foon Sham. Photo by Foon Sham.