Time Waves is a video currently in production that will give an insight to Shaw’s sculptural process. It will follow the creation of a bronze sculpture from his Time Wave series from conception through completion.
The story starts on the California coast at Monastery Beach where Shaw first pondered the significance of undersea sand waves he saw while training for his scientific diver certificate in 1981 at UC Berkeley. The video will capture his sculpture methods, the casting process and culminate with the final form realized in bronze.
“I was following a compass bearing while gliding over sand waves that were constantly remaking themselves. It was mesmerizing.”
Shaw never forgot that day, always thinking that he would like to incorporate the sand wave pattern in sculpture.
“Then one day I was playing with a new material and stumbled across a method of creating a sand-like wave pattern and thought, this is it!”
To Shaw the sand wave pattern represents segments of time that can correspond to generations, nanoseconds or eons and has become an often visited motif.
Check back often for updates on the progress of Time Waves the video.
Time Waves in Baja California. Submitted by Leeuwin Prince, Australia
Sand and Water Time Waves in Carmel California
Time Waves at Caspar Beach California
Time Waves in a Southern Oregon morning sky
Giant clam shell on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Another example of Time Waves in nature.
This shell originated in the Central Indo-Pacific
Submitted by Anne Minner Merdinger
The patina process on one of the sculptures in the Time Wave series at Frostad Atelier in Sacramento California.