Soldered brass, stone, 15 x 11 x 10, 2008. The Drunken Seder joins two sacred meals through the one thing they share, wine, and gives the result the posture of the Barberini Faun. The Hellenistic satyr sleeps it off on a rock, torso thrown back, arm flung overhead, a leg hanging slack. The sculpture’s mass … Continue reading The Drunken Seder
Soldered brass, 15 x 19 x 12, 2008. The Junk of the Dead is a ship built out of what the dead leave behind. “Junk” carries both of its senses in the title: the Chinese sailing vessel, and the discarded household goods that outlast their owners. The sculpture is a junk made of junk, and … Continue reading The Junk of the Dead
Soldered brass, stone, 9 x 10 x 6, 2008. The sun is a half disc ruled with spokes, the diagram of a sunset: a semicircle, rays, and a flat edge below where the horizon would be. Beneath it a plate drilled with two holes is pinned along one edge like a hinge leaf, so the horizon … Continue reading Canadian Sunset
Soldered brass, 11 x 17 x 13, 2008. The Canon is a camera that answers to four words: Canon, cannon, canyon and Kwanon. The sculpture gives each its own part. The camera and the cannon share a verb. Both are aimed, loaded and fired. The lens barrel is stepped and hollow like a bore, and it … Continue reading The Canon
Soldered brass, stone, 13 x 15 x 8, 2008. Aesthetiscope is a stethoscope for beauty. The title joins “aesthetic,” from the Greek for perception by the senses, to the instrument a doctor presses to a chest to hear what goes on inside. The chest-piece here is a wide bowl raised on a dark column, with curved … Continue reading Aesthetiscope
