Pentagonal Copper Peace Pole
Five-sided peace pole
This is the most popular of my large peace poles. Thanks to people being able to search for peace poles on the Web, I have shipped these from Hawaii to Dubai.
Copper peace poles have shiny, reflective text contrasting with flat blue/green patina. They go through stages as they cure in the rain. I put about fifty years of patina on them before I ship them, but that is done with the expectation they will be outside where the rain will continue to cure them. Rather than fighting existing conditions, I make them part of the process. Over time the patina improves.
The reflective text skews the camera and makes the patina look darker than it is. The two photos at left are of the same peace pole (as it hangs from a cable as I work on it). Below left is one with no reflective text in the shot to skew the photo, so it is a more accurate representation of the color of the patina. At top the photo captures the text.
Over one hundred translations of the phrase "May Peace Prevail on Earth" are available for your peace pole. New translations can be done as well. Click translations to see the list of what is available.
Five Sides
I had not been happy with the four-sided poles I had seen and had made. They were too small in diameter and seemed spindly and plain 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 is the most popular of my large peace poles. At the time of this writing, the four most recently shipped were to a church in downtown Chicago (where it stands at a busy intersection); a school in Ann Arbor; a wellness center in St. Augustine, Florida; the Yale Divinity School and one for the town of Canton, Connecticut (http://cantonpeacepole.org) The peace pole below right was for a peace garden at a school in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The one at left is hanging from a cable just after having been completed.
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. (Which is why no one steals them. They are
not worth enough as scrap, especially since the price of copper has dropped 60%
during the last half of 2008).
Price
10.5 feet tall, five-sided Copper Peace
Pole . . . . . $1500.00
Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . $300.00
Total . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .. . . . . . $1800.00
5 translations
are included. Additional are $100 each. Ten are possible. Special dedications
and memorials also can be added
To ask questions or place an order, telephone
513-348-4744 or email me.
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.