Painted soldered brass, 7 x 7 x 4, 2021. Hesiod has Prometheus carry fire down from Olympus in a hollow fennel stalk, and the stalk is the first thing the sculpture offers: a bark-textured branch, cut at the end, rising from a flared cup. Plato adds that Prometheus took more than fire. He took it … Continue reading The Gift of Fire
Welded painted steel, 23.5 x 23.5 x 10, 2021. Hesiod measures the depth of Tartarus with a smith's tool: an anvil dropped from heaven would take nine days to reach the earth and nine more to reach the pit. A pit measured in anvils suits a sculpture built in steel. The toothed ring at the … Continue reading Shades of Tartarus
Welded steel, 24 x 16 x 15, 2019. A seer is defined by two faculties, seeing what others cannot and saying it. The face has the first and begins on the second: eyes opened wide and round, brows drawn up into deep furrows over an old face, a small ribbed mark between them, and lips … Continue reading The Seer
Welded steel, 9 x 27 x 11, 2019. Odalisque comes from the Turkish odalık, a woman of the room: a servant of the harem, who waited on the household. European painters from Ingres to Matisse made her a reclining nude. The sculpture keeps both figures. It lies long and low like the divans of those … Continue reading Odalisque
Welded steel, 9 x 23 x 11, 2019. The river god is one of the oldest reclining figures in sculpture: a male body laid along the ground, propped on an urn from which the river pours. Greek temple pediments put him in their corners, where the triangle narrows, and Roman sculptors gave him the Nile … Continue reading River God
