Painted welded steel, 120 x 108 x 90, 2003. Solus is Latin for alone, and the room the sculpture offers is a bath. At ten feet high, nine wide and seven and a half deep, it can be climbed into, or entered from below. A grab handle stands at the edge of an opening, and a … Continue reading Solus
Painted welded steel, 82 x 41 x 35, 2003. A bowl with a spoon laid across its rim, a tall carafe and a wrapped package stand on a cloth in front of a window frame. Behind the frame a large ring rises above everything else in the composition and reads as the sun coming up. … Continue reading Early Riser
Welded steel, 18 x 30 x 26, 2002. The pages of this Bible are terrain. The book lies open and tilted toward the viewer on a splayed support, and neither page carries text. The left page is a woven wire mesh and the right is a sheet pierced in a pattern of interlocking circles, both … Continue reading Bible Study: The Holy City
Painted welded steel, 31 x 36 x 24, 2002. Annunciation scenes are about an arrival. Someone enters a room and announces something, and painters typically set the event in a domestic interior and often put a book in the Virgin’s hands. This sculpture builds the interior and the messenger as separate parts of one piece. The … Continue reading Bible Study: Annunciation
Welded steel, 21 x 24 x 13, 2002. The hull is two bands of steel plate laid over one another and held with bolts. Viking hulls were built of overlapping planks fastened with iron rivets, and here the fasteners are visible and carry the look of the planks. A wrench stands on the deck beside … Continue reading Viking Ship
