Painted welded steel, 42 x 84 x 24, 1999. “Pine” names a wood, a verb and a bench. The wood is the one the sculpture is painted to resemble, a pale, grained tone. The verb is to long for what isn’t there. The bench is the sports idiom “riding the pine,” which describes a player … Continue reading Pine
Painted welded steel, 36 x 132 x 43, 1999. A fanfare is the flourish on trumpets that announces someone’s arrival, sounded before the person appears. The sculpture sets up the place that announcement is made for, and it supplies the horns without any sound. It lies low along the floor, eleven feet long and three … Continue reading Fanfare
Welded steel, 1999. Revelation is the last book of the Bible, and the word is also what its Greek title, apokalypsis, means: an uncovering. The sculpture is the furniture for reading it. A long, heavy body stands on short feet. A plate on top tilts upward toward the right, the slope a lectern gives a … Continue reading Revelation
Welded steel, 72 x 46 x 40, 1999. A honky-tonk is a cheap bar with live music, and the name also belongs to the piano kept there: a battered upright, usually a little out of tune and played hard, whose tinny sound became a style. The sculpture is that piano in steel. A tall plate … Continue reading Honky Tonk
Painted welded steel, 86 x 39 x 64, 1999. A revival is a meeting held to bring a congregation back to life, and it depends on a voice that reaches a crowd. The sculpture is built for whoever supplies that voice. It stands eighty-six inches high and is large enough to climb into: a platform with a low step … Continue reading Revival
