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 … Continue reading Canadian Sunset
Soldered brass, 11 x 17 x 13, 2008. The Canon is a camera that answers to four words: Canon, cannon, canyon and Kwanon. The sculpture gives each its own part. The camera and the cannon share a verb. Both are aimed, loaded and fired. The lens barrel is stepped and hollow like a bore, and it … Continue reading The Canon
Soldered brass, stone, 13 x 15 x 8, 2008. Aesthetiscope is a stethoscope for beauty. The title joins “aesthetic,” from the Greek for perception by the senses, to the instrument a doctor presses to a chest to hear what goes on inside. The chest-piece here is a wide bowl raised on a dark column, with curved … Continue reading Aesthetiscope
Welded steel, brass, 2008. Ganesha Fireplace is a household shrine in which the fire is the offering. Ganesha is the god invoked first, at the start of any undertaking and at any threshold. The sculpture seats him at the top of the hearth, above the opening where the fire is lit. The arched opening has … Continue reading Ganesha Fireplace
Soldered brass, 11 x 10 x 8, 2008. Extraordinary Rendition shows a hooded figure between two deserts. It slumps at the center with its legs stretched out in front, its head drawn up into a tall pointed hood pierced by two holes. Two blank plates stand behind it like a wall or a door. A … Continue reading Extraordinary Rendition
