G rade’s outdoor w orks can be seen as variants

o f perform ance art, rather than as environmental

or land art, to whidh they’re often com pared.

Instead o f enlisting his own body as perform er,

he recruits his crafted surrogates to be ravaged

by nature, and then presents the aftermath for

public display.

Left: John Grade

carrying his sculpture

Collector

into Willapa

Bay,

W A .

Above:

Collector,

2006-8, wood, 8 x

72 x 78 in., during its

16 months of submer-

sion in the bay.