Pipe Dreams is a miniature industrial landscape (on left, done 10 years ago). The rusted pipes measure no more than 2 ft high at the highest. Generally, an industrial area can be ominous and out of our control. Things like pollution seem beyond us. Here, on the left,  the viewer is the giant in control with a change in perspective and reversal of positions. A yellow brick road leads to the cluster of smokestacks, suggestive of the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy's search for answers or any road at all. One can follow the road and unplug the pipes. (In the original piece, the orifices were filled with fortune cookies.) So one could approach, un plug, and choose a "fortune" which may or may not have anything to do with anything. A dismal piece! Supplies used for this outdoor installation were bricks as seen in the photo, iron pipes of varying sizes, rust was a plus! and fired clay. An old idea. Below are 5 PVC pipe sculptures (about waist high) done with five students from Paul Robeson School, New Brunswick, NJ.

 5 Students from Paul Robeson School, 1 day, maybe 2 hours. I think it was around October, 2000                                                                              What is recorded here is a progression of events to evolve from those two hours.

(just above the red sun is the yellow word "FRIENDSHIP". The size of the computer screen limits our abilities to show you the actual pipe.)

See The Pipes Assembled (Art Yard)                     click here to see Catherine Yakovina's Pipe Dream

Open Call for work

This show will showcase and develop at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. It will preview at Lincoln Center's Cork Gallery downstairs from Avery Fisher Hall May 23-June 4, 2002.

This journey begins with a few students at Paul Robeson School, New Brunswick.

We will make it continue and grow, and dream a dream together.

Material: White PVC pipes. (or other suitable for outdoor and indoor exhibition sites)

Any size up to 10 ft high

We advocate using durable outdoor paints, or adhesives as this show will be both indoor and out. It is a low security show. You take your chances in this world and in this show. Your piece should stand vertically.  We chose PVC pipe for its lite weight and ease in cutting and even joining one piece to another. Sign your name boldly. An e mail address would be good, and someway to contact you on the inside or outside of the pipe.

Creative Options for those far away who don't want to mail a real pipe..

Create A Virtual Pipe Dream  Design and send us the $$ to cover printing

Some funding may be available, so don't let cost stand in your way of submitting your idea!!

We might surprise you!

 May 23, 2002 is the date of the first installment for this show.

 January, 2003 is the full show.

 there is plenty of time!

A class could do one large pipe all together

or each student could do a small section and they can be linked all together

the links themselves can be painted! PVC is cheap!

e mail to us a high resolution jpg of your image designed to print out at the size you imagine or snail mail a CD (We have a PC over here, so if you use a MAC, make sure to save your file compatible for a PC...we will print your design  and adhere it to a PVC pipe of the size you have determined and put you in the show!)

questions: (732) 254-7611

fax (732) 254-2707

e mail at: valweb@valweb.org

(We reserve the right to select pipes to fit whatever space is being used.

(If you are local to us) Bring your pipe, or pipes to

The ART YARD, (click!)

1007 Old Bridge Tpk. East Brunswick, NJ

The pipes from Paul Robeson School are already at UMDNJ where they are casting a great shadow of things to come on the wall. Steadily we will grow a project together and dream a dream.