Welded steel, 70 x 20 x 23, 2007. A headdress normally announces rank to onlookers. A dreamer’s would give the dream a place to enter and a place to stay, and this one has the features for both. It’s a tall hollow shell, far larger than the head beneath it. A ring with an oval … Continue reading Dreamer
Welded steel, 74 x 18 x 18, 2007. Minerva is patron of wisdom and of the crafts, the goddess of people who work with their heads and hands. The portrait bust is the form a culture uses to honor someone it wants remembered: head and shoulders, raised on a column so that the viewer looks up. … Continue reading Minerva
Painted welded steel, 63 x 19 x 16, 2007. Ganesha is the god invoked first. An Indian classical dance or music recital customarily opens with a salutation to him, and so does the start of a book, a building or a journey. The remover of obstacles is the patron of beginnings, and an art has as … Continue reading Ganesha, Patron of the Arts
Painted welded steel, 68 x 48 x 48, 2006. The title takes the mantra Om Shri Ganeshaya Namah, a salutation to Ganesha, and shortens his name to ganja. The leaves in the sculpture carry the second half of the pun. They are green, long and serrated along the edges, and they curve out from a … Continue reading Om Sri Ganja
Painted steel, cast iron, brass, 66 x 23 x 21, 2006. Ganesha the Oracle sets a fully-attributed, iconographically literate Ganesha atop a municipal bollard cast for the City of Edmonton. The god carries his four canonical implements: the trident inherited from his father Shiva, the tusk broken and repurposed as a stylus for transcribing the Mahabharata, … Continue reading Ganesha the Oracle
