Welded steel, concrete, refractory brick, 15.5 x 28.5 x 14, 2019. A runaway object is dangerous in proportion to its mass, and this sculpture is almost all mass: concrete and brick and steel fixed to it. The speed is supplied by the coil of steel, like smoke streaming back along the length of the engine. … Continue reading Runaway
Welded steel, 18 x 13 x 6, 2019. A gatekeeper decides who passes, and this one has no body apart from the gate. The upright bars that block the way are also its torso, and the limbs are bent rod welded to the same frame, so there is no one behind the barrier to appeal … Continue reading Gatekeeper
Welded painted steel, 16.5 x 14.5 x 8.5, 2019. The title is on the sculpture: the word is stamped into the hook as a manufacturer’s mark, so the name is found like the parts. A vanguard is the body that marches ahead of an army, and in the nineteenth century the French form, avant-garde, was … Continue reading Vanguard
Welded painted steel, 8.5 x 19 x 10, 2019. In 1576 Spanish troops, unpaid for months, sacked the commercial capital of the Low Countries, killing thousands and burning the Town Hall. When Antwerp surrendered to Spain in 1585, its potters carried tin-glazed earthenware north, and Delftware descends from that tradition. The sculpture is painted in … Continue reading The Sack of Antwerp
Welded steel, 11.5 x 26 x 9, 2019. The members are offset along their lengths, their ends out of register, like successive positions of one moving form in a chronophotograph. Everything is parallel and low, the nose is lowered and flared, and a coil at the rear reads as the plume the engine leaves behind.
