Welded steel, 19 x 19.5 x 7, 2019. The sculpture has the architecture of a ritual and the contents of a habit. A stack of tubes carries a single cup, and a frame stands over it like a lintel: altar, offering, gate. The same arrangement reads as a kitchen counter, with a cup waiting beneath … Continue reading Habitual Ritual
Welded steel, 10.5 x 11 x 11, 2019 Porcelain is fired in a kiln and iron is forged at a hearth, and the title sets one fire against the other. A vessel with a spout and a looped handle, the kind of thing a potter would throw and fire in clay, is here built in … Continue reading Forged China
Welded steel, 10.5 x 10 x 8, 2019. Curiosity names a temperament and a kind of object: the creature that cocks its head to listen, and the oddity kept in a collector’s cabinet. The sculpture is both. A bowl is tilted on a stack of tubes the way a head is tilted toward a sound, … Continue reading Curiosity
Welded steel, 9.5 x 21 x 5, 2019. A ship is a vessel, and so is a pot, and the history of china is the history of one carried in the other. Chinese porcelain crossed the oceans in the holds of ships, packed low as ballast beneath the tea, and reached Europe months after it … Continue reading Slow Boat
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
