Pentagonal Copper Peace Pole
Five-sided peace pole
I had not been happy with the four-sided
peace poles I had seen and had made. They were too small in diameter and seemed spindly and without
meaning. Five sides fixed that. Five sides provides one side for each continent, like the five rings of the
Olympic flag, and makes it bigger so it has a greater presence.
Also, five sides
create angles that are more interesting visually than either four or six sides.
If nothing else, art should be interesting. Since the pole itself makes a
statement as much as the text on it, I wanted the aesthetics to support the
message in this way.
This copper peace pole is the most popular of my large peace
poles. I have shipped it from Dubai to Hawaii. At the time of this writing, the five most recently shipped were to a
church in downtown Chicago (where it stands at a busy intersection); a school in
Ann Arbor, Michigan; a wellness center in St. Augustine, Florida; the Yale
Divinity School and one for the town of Canton, Connecticut.
Translations
Peace poles are made one at a time so that you can choose which languages you would like on yours. Over one hundred translations of the phrase "May Peace Prevail on Earth" are available. New translations can be done as well. Click translations to see the list of what is available.
Planting / Installing
A copper peace pole can be installed by
burying a portion of it or by
sliding it over stakes. One person can carry this peace pole. So having a group carry
it to the planting site during a ceremony is easy to
do. They weigh only about forty pounds.
Reflective Text
People
keep telling me that the photos of these do not do them justice. When they open
the crate and see their peace poles for the first time, that is a standard comment I
hear.
I'm working to remedy that,
but it is difficult. Our eyes see a greater range of light intensities than a
camera can see or a computer monitor can display. On peace poles with the
reflective text, the text is very bright while the patina is not, which makes it
difficult to represent here what our eyes see in real life. One result is
a skewing of color of the patina when it is in the same photo as the text.
The photos at left are of the same peace pole (as it
hangs from a cable as I work on it). Bottom left is with no bright, reflective text skewing the
camera's meter, so it is a
more accurate representation of the color of the patina. The photo
above it captures the text more accurately but makes the patina look darker than
it really is. I'm getting a better camera and working to create a solution to
this so that I will be able to show in one photo what these look like.
Price
10.5 feet tall, five-sided Copper Peace
Pole . . . . . $1500.00
Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . $250.00
Total . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . $1750.00
5 translations are included. Additional are $100 each. Ten are possible. Animal tracks can be added for $50. Usually I put animal tracks in a ring around the bottom of the pole, down where the animals are, with one track on each side. But other configurations are possible.
Special dedications
and memorials also can be added.
To ask questions or place an order, telephone
513-348-4744 or email me.
Upgrading
One of my copper peace poles was planted at a high school where their peace pole is the focal point for students resolving differences. When there is a squabble or a confrontation, the tradition is to send the students to the peace pole to read the message, think about the purpose of their peace pole and figure out how to arrive at peace themselves. Originally they did this around a wooden pole. When they built a new school, they decided that their peace pole had come to have such importance in their community that they wanted one that lived up to that importance. They upgraded from a wooden peace pole to a five-sided copper peace pole.