Artist Ned Schaper in front of his new location on Broadway, wearing the Painful Moment Simulator. Photo courtesy of Abril Castillo.
After a bit of turbulence when the former Mat Bevel Institute of 17 years was demolished at 530 N. Stone, sculptor, poet, performer, physicist Ned Schaper dubbed the large landscape of found-object sculptures The Beveled Ark after moving them three times in 6 months. His former 5,000 square foot historic warehouse was leveled in anticipation of a highway.
Now Ned and his sister Paula have established the Society for Bevel Intentions in the Sam Hughes neighborhood. The new location offers Ned and Paula a long anticipated business opportunity. Here at the former Rose Petal Bridal Fashions store, they’re launching Bevelvision Internet TV for audiences of all ages around the globe.
The name Bevelvision refers to seeing through the bevel, past the surface. The bevel is a portal that leads to a virtual temple of pathways lined with iconoglyphs where people can go beyond the surface to a deeper world of alternative inspiration.
Schaper explains, “The internet allows us to go back to nature in the sense that everything we need is ‘virtually’ there, but we have to find it. So the interface of the technology must, like the plants, allow us to sort through it without having to see it all. We need to be able to navigate thru to the areas that will give us what we need by sensing what to ignore.”
Ever adaptable, once Schaper set-up the Museum of Kinetic Art in the new location, he realized that from Broadway, they looked like they were packed into an aquarium. With The Rose Petal’s gallery-like interior and large glass display windows, Schaper calls the new location the Bevelarium.
For more information, contact Paula Schaper by phone at 520-604-6273 or email: pschaper@bevelintentions.org.