Soldered brass, 13 x 14 x 9, 2009. The River City is a river that’s also a city, and it’s built as an animal. It stands on four legs with a round belly, a handle arching over its back and a horn at the front, and it pours water out of itself. On its flank … Continue reading The River City
Soldered brass, 17 x 13 x 8, 2009. A small profile face looks out from behind a mass of round forms: a deep open bore, large flat discs with raised centers, a flared shell shape, and a curving blade-like horn that rises to a point. The discs sit where ears would sit on either side of … Continue reading Oracle of Auricles
Soldered brass, 18 x 16 x 10, 2009. Boom Times is a prosperous figure that looks ready to topple. It wears a broad cocked hat, the headgear of a general, an admiral or a dignitary, and the hat is the widest and heaviest form in the piece. Below it the body narrows to a tall, tight … Continue reading Boom Times
Soldered brass, MDF, 15 x 12 x 9, 2008. The title is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley’s Prometheus is Victor Frankenstein, who animates a body built from parts and is destroyed by what he makes. The sculpture is built from parts as well: a candlestick, discs, a horn and … Continue reading The Modern Prometheus
Soldered brass, 9 x 23 x 10, 2008. The title is the phrase Et in Arcadia ego, in which death speaks from within the pastoral ideal. Poussin’s shepherds find a tomb in the landscape and read its inscription. The sculpture has a tomb of its own at the right: a rectangular opening framed by a … Continue reading Even in Arcadia
