Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of 3 Dancing Maidens

Personal Observations by Robert P. Taylor
Fountain's Creator and Artist

The 30 drawings made for Fountain between 26 June 1999 and 8 July 2000, comprise less than 1% of the more than 4000 sketches and drawings I made between 1996 and mid-2001. During that entire period, I was simultaneously working on a number of sites, most of which involved drawings extensively. In doing this work, ideas about digitization, drawing, and displaying digitized images via the web increasingly occupied my thinking and drawing. As it was completed, each site reflected elements of this preoccupation, in its organization, in the nature of some of its images, in the scope and power of its indexes, and in various comments scattered on individual pages within it (see Other Taylor webberies below for more). Moreover, since the sites were completed successively, the later sites reflect the ideas more directly and present them more explicitly than do the earlier ones. As the last of this whole group to be designed and implmented, Fountain presents them most explicity. It is particularly fitting that Schott's 1910 sculpture from Berlin should be the focus of this final site. In demonstrating the use of new digitization technology to present humankind's creativity in art, what could be a more fitting as subject than this exquisitly creative work? It's transcendent joyfulness somehow survived both the destructiveness of World War II bombing and the divisive erection of the Berlin wall. ness? And what more appropriate medium than the globally accessible web could be used to display the work's transcendence of the destructive political divisions that nearly destroyed it?