The 50-foot sculpture along the south pier in downtown St. Joseph has had its 20th birthday celebration. A reception was held Tuesday night at the Shadowland Pavilion for the occasion as And You, Seas marked two decades. The Krasl Art Center’s Tami Fauver told WSJM News Chicago-based artist Richard Hunt created the massive stainless steel work of art. It was quite a process making it and getting it to St. Joe.
“The column was rolled and created in one studio, and then the top and the base of it were created in his own studio in Chicago,” Fauver said. “It required three flatbed trucks to deliver it from Chicago to here. They actually considered shipping it by water. It was really sort of a puzzle to figure out, and but they went with flatbed trucks. And because this is a working water front, they had to get the Army Corps of Engineers to sign off and approve.”
Fauver said the base has deep pilings, keeping it firmly on the pier in all kinds of Lake Michigan Weather. The work is based off a poem of the same name by St. John Perse. Fauver said when the Krasl and other partners were planning the sculpture walk along the shore in St. Joseph, they originally envisioned something along the lines of 20 to 30 feet tall, but it kept growing. The celebration at Shadowland Pavilion Tuesday included music, boat rides, ice cream, and the now 88-year-old Hunt himself.
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