Sculpture 

Wooden ladder, table, 88 wooden spikes, 301 glass shards embedded in 9 wooden planks, 6 ceramic cups

Dimensions: 66” x 84” x 84”

Collection: National Gallery of Canada

Prairie Mountain was one of a series of works made for the exhibition Sculpture on the Prairies . Please see description for Tightrope above for more information. 

Here we see once again the use of a found object. The table was the only piece of furniture in the  schoolhouse. The idea being the viewer climbs the ladder or if you extend that climbs the mountain and finds a place to rest and contemplate. Their view would be a harrow of sharpened wooden spikes and broken glass. This harrow-like tool is lifted off the floor by 4 teacups. (this tea cup motif appears in several later works: Skins, Portrait of the Viewer as Artist, 

This work was purchased from the exhibition by Mayo Graham for the National Gallery of Canada.