Welded steel, 28 x 24 x 24, 2000. The title names the end of a day’s washing. A load of laundry is what fits in one basket and goes through one cycle, and the last load is the one after which the chore is done. The sculpture sets out the stages of that chore from … Continue reading Last Load
Painted welded steel, 89 x 79 x 33, 1999. An overture is an opening. The word is the French ouverture, and it names the piece an orchestra plays before the curtain rises as well as the first approach one person makes to another. The sculpture builds the opening and leaves out what lies beyond it. … Continue reading Overture
Welded steel, 21 x 64 x 118, 1999. The form of the sculpture reads as a ritual table. It’s long and low, about ten feet by five and under two feet high, a height at which a person would stoop or kneel to reach what’s on it. The top is a thick slab edged with … Continue reading The Dogon
Welded steel, 90 x 28 x 24, 1999. The title is an inside joke. Bill Street, of the UofA music department, was the external examiner of the artist’s graduate thesis. “Easy Street” asks him to go easy, and the sculpture makes the request in his own field. It is a busker’s pitch laid out for … Continue reading Easy Street
Painted welded steel, 42 x 84 x 24, 1999. “Pine” names a wood, a verb and a bench. The wood is the one the sculpture is painted to resemble, a pale, grained tone. The verb is to long for what isn’t there. The bench is the sports idiom “riding the pine,” which describes a player … Continue reading Pine
