Welded steel, 75 x 27 x 24, 2004. “A man of the world” is the phrase for someone seasoned and unshockable, at ease in any company. The portrait bust is the format cultures have long used to honor public figures: head and shoulders on a column, raised so the viewer looks up. Man o’ the … Continue reading Man o’ the World
Welded steel, 11 x 39 x 43, 2003. Atlas is the Titan who holds up the sky, and the sculpture keeps only the part of him that holds. It has no figure and no strain: what remains is a base, a thick slab on stout feet, made to receive something and give it a firm seat. … Continue reading Atlas
Painted welded steel, 120 x 108 x 90, 2003. Solus is Latin for alone, and the room the sculpture offers is a bath. At ten feet high, nine wide and seven and a half deep, it can be climbed into, or entered from below. A grab handle stands at the edge of an opening, and a … Continue reading Solus
Painted welded steel, 82 x 41 x 35, 2003. A bowl with a spoon laid across its rim, a tall carafe and a wrapped package stand on a cloth in front of a window frame. Behind the frame a large ring rises above everything else in the composition and reads as the sun coming up. … Continue reading Early Riser
Painted welded steel, 74 x 42 x 54, 2003. Liberty is known by two things she holds: a torch in her raised arm and a tablet in the other. The raised arm of this figure remains, ending in an open tube with nothing in it. The other arm ends bluntly, without a hand to hold a … Continue reading The Abduction of Liberty
