Welded steel, 79 x 17 x 16, 2008. The Customs Agent is a welded steel portrait bust that explores the layered meanings of authority, labor, and interpretation within art. By titling the work after a bureaucratic figure, the piece engages a dual reading: it references the historical role of customs officers while also playing with the … Continue reading The Customs Agent
Author: MC
Once Upon a Time
Soldered brass, 11 x 18 x 8, 2008. Once Upon a Time is a story’s opening phrase turned into a still life. The tale-teller’s formula puts everything that follows outside the present, and the sculpture is built from the objects that tradition of painting uses for the same purpose. The vanitas still life, in the seventeenth … Continue reading Once Upon a Time
Cygnus + Phaeton
Soldered brass, 2008.
After Armageddon
Soldered brass, 13 x 30 x 7, 2008.
Gitmo Tondo
Soldered brass, 12 x 10 x 7, 2008.
