Soldered brass, 10 x 15 x 10, 2010. Curse of the Ninth invokes the musical superstition that a composer is fated to die after completing their ninth symphony. The sculpture brings together a dynamic array of found and fabricated brass elements—including a horse-like figure, curved pipe elbows, a decorated circular cap, a heavy hex nut … Continue reading Curse of the Ninth
Soldered brass, 9 x 7 x 5, 2010. Minor Heroics (2010) is a compact, highly dense tabletop bust in soldered brass that reinterprets traditional monumental portraiture and heroic statuary through the lens of domestic assemblage. The title Minor Heroics operates with playful irony, referencing both the small scale of the sculpture and the modest, unheralded … Continue reading Minor Heroics
Soldered brass, 2010. A satirical tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that critiques sensation-driven journalism, surveillance, and optical distortion. Structured like an antique box camera or projection lantern mounted on a baluster-shaped pedestal, the sculpture incorporates a large glass-lensed aperture, a tilted dish-like horn or receiver, and side-mounted eye and ear motifs. By styling the apparatus … Continue reading A Golden Age of Yellow Media
Soldered brass, 8 x 21 x 10, 2010. An elongated, horizontal tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that constructs a surreal, reclining landscape of memory and subconscious fantasy. Measuring nearly two feet in length, the sculpture bridges domestic brass relics with architectural and figurative motifs, including decorative plates, a horn-like funnel, shell-shaped vessels, an open keyhole-like … Continue reading Dreamland
Soldered brass, 16 x 12 x 11, 2010. A vertical tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that reinterprets the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ through an abstract, structural vocabulary. Set upon a square pedestal base and a baluster column, the work constructs a central lap-like basin that supports a dense cluster of diagonal, … Continue reading Pietà
