Larry David Merriman
Installations and Objects
Two year's worth of windows from junk mail envelopes stapled to form curtains. 2022-ongoing
Installation, 22'x33'x11' . Steel rods spearing a year's collection of leaves from our tree, wood, leaf letters, lights, and digital prints (see link for full description).
Go to linkOn site installation that preceded gallery installations at ArtFields and Coker College. Magnolia leaves, metal rods, and lights. Approximately 12' in diameter x height of tree (see link for full description).
Go to linkPaper shred pressed (dry) into a plywood mold. Mold panels were removed leaving this freestanding sculpture. Approx. 6'x 18"x 6'. View 1 of 3 See video link below.
Go to linkClose-up showing how paper shred fell away over duration of exhibit. View 2 of 3 See video link below.
Go to linkStill from one of five videos documenting building roof brackets for my Art vs. Life Project. See video link below.
Go to linkView of installation with brackets and projection of five videos. Approx.:15x15x11' See video link below.
Go to linkBricks are supported by columns of caps. Nothing is glued, just stacked. Bricks and bottle caps, 4' dia. x 5' high. View 1 of 3 See video link below.
Go to linkCap column contains approx. 1400 stacked caps: small portion of accumulation from a twenty year period (by my family of four). View 3 of 3
Go to linkSize variable: 11' H in this space. Quart size yogurt cups (accumulated by my family of four). View 1 of 2
View 2 of 2
Food packaging and bricks balanced on wooden seesaw. Flattened boxes: cereal, cookie, cracker, etc. from family's food consumption. Approx. 5' L x 3' H x 2'W View 1 of 2 See video link below.
Go to linkPaper shred (junk mail, receipts, exams, etc. saved from school and home). View 1 of 5
Only Words 1 is made from cast, shredded paper (junk mail, receipts, exams, etc. saved from school and home). Wet shred was pressed into hemispherical molds, dried, and assembled. Sculpture measures 4' x 4' x 4'. View 2 of 5
Individual ball measure about 8' in dia. View 3 of 5
Paper shred (junk mail, receipts, exams, etc. saved from school and home) was pressed (dry) into a mold. The panels of the mold were removed leaving the freestanding pyramid seen here. Approximately 4 x 4 x 4'. View 4 of 5
Nothing was added to glue shred together. View 5 of 5
This sculpture contains about two years accumulation of food packaging, by my family of four, glued end to end and rolled up. Measures approx. 3.5' in dia. x 14". View 1 of 2
Part of Sumter, South Carolina's "Accessibility Installation."At 42" in diameter, this hollow arch form is 11' high, spans 22' and is constructed from recycled packaging produced by my family of four.
Part of Sumter, South Carolina's "Accessibility Installation. Torn food packaging formed into balls and perched on bamboo arches. Arches and balls are held in place with guy ropes and wires. Approx. 8' W x 5' H x 25' L