Welded painted steel, 8.5 x 19 x 10, 2019. In 1576 Spanish troops, unpaid for months, sacked the commercial capital of the Low Countries, killing thousands and burning the Town Hall. When Antwerp surrendered to Spain in 1585, its potters carried tin-glazed earthenware north, and Delftware descends from that tradition. The sculpture is painted in … Continue reading The Sack of Antwerp
Welded steel, 11.5 x 26 x 9, 2019. The members are offset along their lengths, their ends out of register, like successive positions of one moving form in a chronophotograph. Everything is parallel and low, the nose is lowered and flared, and a coil at the rear reads as the plume the engine leaves behind.
Welded steel, 19 x 19.5 x 7, 2019. The sculpture has the architecture of a ritual and the contents of a habit. A stack of tubes carries a single cup, and a frame stands over it like a lintel: altar, offering, gate. The same arrangement reads as a kitchen counter, with a cup waiting beneath … Continue reading Habitual Ritual
Welded steel, 9.5 x 21 x 5, 2019. A ship is a vessel, and so is a pot, and the history of china is the history of one carried in the other. Chinese porcelain crossed the oceans in the holds of ships, packed low as ballast beneath the tea, and reached Europe months after it … Continue reading Slow Boat
Welded steel, 16 x 25 x 10, 2019. The three Fates of Greek myth divide one task among sisters: Clotho spins the thread of a life, Lachesis measures it, and Atropos cuts it. The sculpture gives each an instrument. A rod curves like thread coming off a spindle. A flat bar pierced with a row … Continue reading Sisters of Fate
