Soldered brass, stone, 9 x 10 x 6, 2008.
The sun is a half disc ruled with spokes, the diagram of a sunset: a semicircle, rays, and a flat edge below where the horizon would be. Beneath it a plate drilled with two holes is pinned along one edge like a hinge leaf, so the horizon reads as a door swinging shut. A shallow dish with a pendant drop sits under the sun, set out to receive it as it goes down.
At the lower right a serrated leaf lies on its side against the marble, at the opposite end of the diagonal from the sun. The sun goes down at the end of the day and the leaf has come down at the end of the season, and the sculpture places the two descents on one line, one at the top and one on the ground.
The brass has the color of low light, and the pale stone beneath it is cool and still. The title’s “Canadian” is carried by the leaf and by the length of that line, which runs from the top of the piece to its base.
