My interest in sited work was an indirect outgrowth of my participation in “AutoBodies,” a performance event produced by Claes Oldenburg in Los Angeles, in 1964.  The public aspect of the work, as well as its temporality, challenged my understanding of the limits of art and granted me a passport to explore new territory.

I passed through a period of situational installations and artist collaborations on temporary sited work, while wrestling with the incongruities between place and object.  By 1974, I began in earnest to focus on permanent sited works in public places.

Since 1974, I have produced over thirty site-specific public works, primarily in outdoor settings. Many of my public commissions have offered the ideal circumstances for pursuing my interest in demystifying formal sculpture and creating a sense of place at a human scale. Most of these works mediate between architecture and the landscape and, without being specifically functional, establish a locus for audience interaction and play.  My work shares with architecture its capacity for shelter and intimacy, allowing it to engage the spectator in the participatory relationship essential to “complete the work.” 

- Lloyd Hamrol