Welded steel, 32 x 40 x 18, 2002. A theatre is at its most charged in the minutes before the curtain goes up, when everything is ready and nothing has happened. The sculpture is a stage in that interval, and nobody is on it. A half-disc platform sweeps forward at the center like an apron stage. … Continue reading Opening Night
Welded steel, 2002. “Revolution” has two meanings, and the sculpture makes one object of both. It’s one trip of a body around a center, and it’s the overthrow of an order. The October Revolution is the Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd in October 1917, by the Russian calendar then in use. The month in … Continue reading October: Revolution
Welded steel, 100 x 94 x 98, 2002. The English word covers three things that the sculpture turns into one. An overture is an opening, since the French ouverture means exactly that. It is also the piece an orchestra plays before an opera begins, while the audience settles and the curtain is still down. And it … Continue reading Overture
Welded steel, 60 x 84 x 72, 2001. A child building a fort takes what’s at hand and gives each thing a job. A bowl becomes a turret, a ball becomes a foundation, a plate becomes a drawbridge, and each object stays recognizable under its new role. Spanish Castle is built that way. The title … Continue reading Spanish Castle
Welded steel, 35 x 32 x 22, 2001. The studios of different arts keep different equipment and the same arrangement. Things lean on walls, hang from hooks and sit on the floor at the foot of whatever they serve, and the sculpture is made of that arrangement. Nearly every part serves more than one trade. … Continue reading In the Studio
