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Kim
Adams Artist Statemtent I have had this work in mind since 1987, when I visited a friend at his farm in Quebec. He had walked me to an abandoned open pit mine. At the top of the very large pit there were several buildings, including one which, in the industry, is referred to as a Gravel Tipple. This leggy, boxed and stacked industrial structure was built so that trucks had easy access to its under-belly, picking up loads of gravel. I was told that the building was free and could be taken by anyone as long as they would move it off the site. To move it to Toronto, however, would probably cost more than to build a new one. Although I could neither afford to build a new one nor to move the existing building, I was still interested I the type of structure and its possibilities as a sculpture studio. After the sighting, I designed a building in the form of a drawing and a small model, with the intention of eventually building a larger model of this "wish studio" to fit my artistic and domestic needs. Crab-Legs
is a realization of this idea in the form of a model sculpture. In
its construction, it is related to some of my earlier works which
included mobile, stacked garden sheds, recreational vehicles on legs
or silts and other types of homes on wheels. The work is complete
with a loading dock, workshop, studio space, library and living area.
In addition to interior lighting, there are two working, model street
lights illuminating the loading dock and workshop area inside,, where
one can see a sculpture in progress. The building, which is placed
on double tracks with two separate housing structures within, can
itself be moved. This is suggestive of various types of industrial
workshop units which relocate, or move along as part of the construction
assembly process, whether as a whole or in separate, re-assemblable
modular units; either expanding or contracting, and incorporating
the process of its own making. Crab-Legs is a distributor-maker
of sculpture. Kim
Adams, Crab-Legs
(Studio), 1994; corrugated metal, steel, plastic, lamps, paint;
Track, 50'L x 5'6" W; Studio, 23'H x 20'L x 9'6"W; Studio
Shuttles, each 5'4"H x 5'1"L x 4'W. 
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