Welded steel, brass, 58 x 23 x 11, 2003. The sculpture shows Ganesha in his dancing form. A heavy god is made light by commitment. The largest form in the piece is the polished sphere of his belly, and everything else radiates from it: one foot kicked up, short legs, arms flung wide, the … Continue reading Dancing Ganesha
Welded steel, 78 x 67 x 20, 2002. The subject. An allegory in the Enlightenment manner: a virtue triumphs over vices, with the parenthetical naming the defeated. What the title withholds is the personified Reason that tradition would have shown, a Minerva or a goddess of Reason with spear and book. In her place stands … Continue reading Reason’s Quiet Victory (over ignorance and dishonesty)
Welded steel, 28 x 12 x 12, 2002. “Kingsnake” is the name of a real species, one that preys on other snakes, and the sculpture reads the name as a rank. This snake has a human head and a crown. The head is in profile at the top, with full lips pushed forward, and a … Continue reading King Snake
Welded steel, 2002. Looked at as a bust, the sculpture gives a goddess head and shoulders and no face. The head is a cylinder with a dark domed cap, tipped toward the viewer, and its open end faces us where a face would be. The pale inside of the tube is what we meet. A … Continue reading Goddess
Welded steel, 18 x 30 x 26, 2002. The pages of this Bible are terrain. The book lies open and tilted toward the viewer on a splayed support, and neither page carries text. The left page is a woven wire mesh and the right is a sheet pierced in a pattern of interlocking circles, both … Continue reading Bible Study: The Holy City
