International Sculpture Center: Don Maynard: Through a Glass, Lightly
June 17, 2021 - Gil McElroy, International Sculpture Center
"It’s a discreet work, seemingly unassuming and visually undemanding of attention. It’s entitled Looks Like Rain, and it’s a work by Canadian sculptor Don Maynard. But appearances, as the cliché goes, are deceiving, for Maynard has wrought a work that is insistently experiential. Its title gives some inkling of things; overall, the angled setting of the rods is of course suggestive of a heavy rain falling.
"But that’s perceptually static, and this piece is anything but. Walking up and down along the extent of Looks Like Rain reveals its dynamic aesthetic core, born of simple physics and human perception. The varied angles of the leaning glass rods randomly catch the gallery lighting, refracting and reflecting it in disparate ways, and the experience is that of tiny bits of light in motion like tiny drops of rain in motion."
