Soldered brass, steel, 21 x 33 x 12, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. The work holds together the two things Irish song has always held together: a landscape and a voice. A single wire line runs through the frame, rising and falling in loose swells. It reads as the … Continue reading Irish Song
Soldered brass, iron, 20 x 15 x 10, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. The title joins two senses of a word. Gallows humour is the joke made in the face of death. Humorism is the Greek medical doctrine that health is a balance of four bodily fluids, with temperament set … Continue reading Gallows Humorism
Soldered brass, iron, 12 x 9 x 8, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. A fountain is water given a shape, and this one has no water in it. Every element that would carry the flow is metal: the leaf that hangs in a falling line, the curved rod that arcs … Continue reading Fountain
Soldered brass, steel, 23 x 19 x 19, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. A spirit house is set up on a property so that the guardian of the land has a dwelling of its own and no reason to resent the people living there. The custom is a courtesy … Continue reading Spirit House
Soldered brass, 22 x 15 x 9, 2018. "Mask of Tragedy," a 2018 sculpture by Canadian artist Ryan McCourt, melds elements of Greek theatrical masks with visual motifs reminiscent of indigenous ceremonial masks. Crafted from soldered brass, the sculpture’s exaggerated features and intricate patterns evoke both the dramatic expressions of classical theater and the spiritual … Continue reading Mask of Tragedy
