Welded steel, 2000. The exclamation mark turns the title into an announcement, the way a shop sign calls out what it has in stock. The sculpture sets out three kinds of provision, each in the form its kind takes. A squat jar stands at the lower left with rods and a disc standing in it, … Continue reading Supplies!
Painted welded steel, 2000. “Idiot box” is the slang name for the television, and the sculpture is built on the plan of a set with an antenna: a heavy body, a pair of uprights standing on top of it, and a cord. The body is a stack of layered horizontal slabs with a drum fitted … Continue reading Idiot Box
Welded steel, 12 x 12 x 12, 2000. A portrait is made of a person and a still life of things, and the title gives the portrait’s attention to the still life. The sculpture does it by staging. A flask with a round base and a narrow neck stands at the right of a dark … Continue reading Portrait of a Still Life
Welded steel, 2000. “Slow Turning” describes what happens to the leftovers of a meal when the washing-up is put off: milk turns, gravy sets, a skin forms. The sculpture is the pile of dishes that waits while this goes on. A wide shallow dish with a knob handle at one end rides on top. Under … Continue reading Slow Turning
Painted welded steel, 34 x 24 x 24, 2000. “Sink” is a fixture and also a verb, and the sculpture sets out the parts of the fixture one by one on a low table. Two shallow round basins lie side by side at the left with nothing in them. A tall post topped with a … Continue reading Sink
