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
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
Soldered brass, 2008. Cygnus + Phaeton gives the two halves of a myth their own forms and puts them in one composition. Phaethon, the son of the sun god Helios, borrowed his father’s chariot for a day and lost control of the horses. The earth caught fire, and Zeus brought him down with a thunderbolt … Continue reading Cygnus + Phaeton
Soldered brass, 13 x 30 x 7, 2008. After Armageddon takes the final battle as already finished. Apocalypse is imagined as a vertical event, with fire descending and trumpets overhead. This work lies flat, thirty inches long and seven deep, in the posture of a tomb effigy or a reclining figure, and what lies in … Continue reading After Armageddon
Soldered brass, 12 x 10 x 7, 2008. The tondo is the round devotional picture of Renaissance Florence, made for the home and given most often to the Virgin and Child. Its subject sat at the center of the circle to be venerated, and the frame was commonly a garland of flowers and fruit. Gitmo … Continue reading Gitmo Tondo
