DRIFT Dallas sculpture by Gerry Judah, Texas Landscape Architecture, USA Design
DRIFT sculpture by Gerry Judah in Dallas, Texas
Nov 27, 2020
DRIFT, 2020, Dallas, Texas
Design: sculpture by Gerry Judah
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Photos by Dan Sellers
In Texas, the Belt Line Road stretches thirty miles in a straight line through the hills and valleys between Dallas and Fort Worth. If you pause at the Olympus crossroad to North Lake, you will find DRIFT, the latest sculpture by Gerry Judah, dazzling in the sun like the bleached bones of an ancient leviathan. The installation; cut, welded and ground from steel has its origins in the green fields of England and the mountains of New Zealand. It’s the latest in a series of sculptures exploring writhing, twisting forms assembled from stacks of steel blocks.
At 6.3 metres high and 13 metres long, DRIFT spreads horizontally, a counterpoint to Gerry Judah?s MAZDA, 2015 sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed, West Sussex, and JACOB?S LADDER, 2018 sculpture in the deep hills of Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, New Zealand. Three hundred and ten steel blocks varying in thickness from 60mm to 140mm are carefully stacked, each at a slightly different angle to the one before, to form a gently flowing wisp, floating in the air like eighteen and a half tonnes of frozen steel smoke.

Built for a huge temperature range and high winds – being at the southern end of Tornado Alley – DRIFT was engineered to ...