Painted welded steel, 12 x 8 x 8, 2005. Solo is a room for one person. Public space is built for crowds, with sightlines, noise and constant traffic, and almost nothing in it shelters a single person. This sculpture would stand on a street or plaza at twelve feet tall and eight feet across, with … Continue reading Maquette for Solo
Painted welded steel, 12 x 10 x 11, 2005. A playhouse is two things in English: the small house built for children to play in, and the theatre. The sculpture is both at once. The entrance is a short flight of steps climbing beside tall vertical folds that hang like a curtain. Going up those … Continue reading Maquette for Playhouse
Painted welded steel, 30 x 21 x 17, 2005. The work isolates the interval between decapitation and resurrection, the act by which Ganesha achieves his final form only by first being killed. In the source narrative, most fully told in the Shiva Purana, Parvati makes the boy from her own body alone, with no involvement … Continue reading The Reawakening of Ganesha
Painted welded steel, 2004. An outlook is the view from a window, a way of regarding things, and a weather forecast, and the sculpture is built to hold all three. A heavy beam rides on two unlike posts: a round column on a stepped disc and a flat blade ending in a curled foot. The … Continue reading Maquette for A Modern Outlook
Painted welded steel, 216 x 192 x 108, 2004. “Outlook” is the view from a window and also the weather forecast, and the sculpture gives both in one structure: a view under the lintel and a forecast above it. The form is a triumphal arch, a heavy lintel carried on two posts, eighteen feet high … Continue reading A Modern Outlook
