Donald Lipski, Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!, 1994

55 steel marine buoys

Donald Lipski’s work explores how context transforms the meaning of found objects, through a often whimsical combination of materials and site. Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!, 1994, looks like an oversized desktop toy or a dropped pearl necklace, but the parts are really recycled steel marine buoys. Located in the Children’s Sculpture Garden, this sea-worthy, out-sized string of reclaimed objects, upholds Lipski’s interest in Surrealist traditions, toying with scale and rendering this row of 55 buoys motionless along the wooded terrain of the Park.

Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of Terri Hyland

Location: Children's Sculpture Garden