Soldered brass, cast iron, 20 x 25 x 18, 2018. Cervantes describes Rocinante as bony and Don Quixote as lean and worn down. The sculpture treats both the same way. Horse and rider are built from tube, ring and bar with nothing filling the volumes, so each body is all frame. The ball on the … Continue reading Quixote
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Brunswick Stew
Soldered brass, 14 x 14 x 13, 2017. Created in residence at the Hambidge Center, USA. A stew is made of whatever is available, cooked until the pieces stop being separate. The sculpture is built the same way, from a bird, a leaf-like dish, a box with a lid, a cut ornamental scroll and a … Continue reading Brunswick Stew
The Old City
Soldered brass, 13 x 39 x 11, 2017. Created in residence at the Hambidge Center, USA. The sculpture reads as a city laid out along one ground line, with the standing parts at the left and the fallen parts at the right. At the left a crenellated wall encloses a low court, a tall chimney-shaped … Continue reading The Old City
Solar Box
Soldered brass, wood, 23 x 9 x 9, 2017. Created in residence at the Hambidge Center, USA. The sculpture is a vertical stack: a petalled bowl on a flared stem, an open box, and a base of overlapping leaf forms standing on a round wooden foot. The petalled bowl and the leaf base both belong … Continue reading Solar Box
Land of the Cherokee
Soldered brass, wood, 31 x 26 x 18, 2017. Created in residence at the Hambidge Center, USA. North Georgia was Cherokee country until the 1830s, when the state surveyed it into lots, distributed them by lottery, and the Cherokee were forced west on the route that became the Trail of Tears. Surveying is the drawing … Continue reading Land of the Cherokee
