Welded painted steel, 111 x 87 x 48, 2019. Nonextant. Ganesha is the pot-bellied god, and the sculpture takes the epithet literally: the belly is a firebox behind a mesh window, a pot-bellied stove, and when it is lit the smoke rises around the figure. The pun is plain and exact. Ganesha’s belly is said … Continue reading Hot Ganesha
Welded steel, 16 x 25 x 10, 2019. The three Fates of Greek myth divide one task among sisters: Clotho spins the thread of a life, Lachesis measures it, and Atropos cuts it. The sculpture gives each an instrument. A rod curves like thread coming off a spindle. A flat bar pierced with a row … Continue reading Sisters of Fate
Soldered brass, steel, 52 x 18 x 18, 2019. Geisthaus is German for spirit house, the small dwelling raised on a post in Southeast Asia, built for a presence with no body and furnished with a tray at its base for offerings. The brass frame is a cube with a pitched roof, drawn in linear … Continue reading Geisthaus
Welded steel, 47 x 35 x 17, 2019. The parts sit in a rectangular field like marks on a page, and the work is read from the front as a sheet is read, left to right and top to bottom. Two kinds of sheet suit it: a score and a window. Read as notation, the … Continue reading Love Song (for Nola)
Soldered brass, 13 x 19 x 9, 2018. The Sirens of the Odyssey promise knowledge: they offer to tell the listener everything that happens on the fertile earth. Odysseus survives by being tied to the mast while his crew’s ears are stopped. The lure is a promise of interior knowledge, and the defence is restraint. … Continue reading Siren Song
