Soldered brass, 18.5 x 12 x 6, 2023. Love Letter assembles a vocabulary of domestic and ceremonial brass: a crumb tray, a jug with a curling handle, a lidded cylinder, a ladle, a trumpet-bell funnel, a window grille, a cast arrow, a recumbent bird, and a turned baluster foot. These objects are soldered into a … Continue reading Love Letter
Soldered brass, 15.5 x 18.5 x 7, 2023. Fool's Paradise is built on a turned, urn-like pedestal that carries a frontal, heraldic arrangement of cast and stamped brass. The title names a state of illusory contentment, a happiness founded on a mistake. Milton gave the idea a topography in Paradise Lost, where the Paradise of … Continue reading Fool’s Paradise
Soldered brass, 23.5 x 23 x 14, 2022 "Grotesque" first named an ornamental style. Grottesche were the painted fantasies of putti, birds, vases, garlands, and hybrid monsters, interwoven with strange fruits and flowers, that Renaissance artists found on the walls of Nero's buried Golden House, which they entered like caves (grotte). The sculpture is that … Continue reading Grotesque Display
Soldered brass, 14 x 15 x 9, 2022. Baba Yaga is a standing figure, frontal and symmetrical, with a skull for a face. A crumpled sheet-metal kerchief is pulled low over the brow, above hollow orbits and a nasal aperture. The torso is a smooth dome, crossed by fork-like implements whose slender tines read simultaneously … Continue reading Baba Yaga
Soldered brass, copper, 21 x 17 x 9, 2022. The title names the earthly paradise as the twentieth century invented it. James Hilton coined Shangri-La in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon for a hidden Himalayan sanctuary of peace and long life, a Western fantasy of Tibetan and Chinese spirituality, and the name has since passed … Continue reading Shangri-La
