Soldered brass, 11 x 34 x 13, 2021. The title is a pun: spoken aloud, "attic wit" is "adequate." The attic is where a household's discarded objects end up, and the sculpture is made of them. Attic wit is the refined humour of Athens. Adequate is the verdict of faint praise. The pun sets the … Continue reading Attic Wit
Soldered brass, 11.5 x 9.5 x 5.5, 2021. The title is the opening line of the Prologue to Henry V. The Chorus calls for a Muse of fire "that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention," then concedes that the stage is an "unworthy scaffold" for so great an object and asks the audience to … Continue reading A Muse of Fire
Soldered brass, 15.5 x 25 x 10, 2021. Schiller's ode, as Beethoven set it in the finale of the Ninth Symphony, says that joy's magic binds together again what custom has strictly divided. The sculpture takes that line as its method. Its parts come from different places and uses: a carp, an elephant, a folding … Continue reading Ode to Joy
Painted soldered brass, 7 x 7 x 4, 2021. Hesiod has Prometheus carry fire down from Olympus in a hollow fennel stalk, and the stalk is the first thing the sculpture offers: a bark-textured branch, cut at the end, rising from a flared cup. Plato adds that Prometheus took more than fire. He took it … Continue reading The Gift of Fire
Soldered brass, steel, 52 x 18 x 18, 2019. Geisthaus is German for spirit house, the small dwelling raised on a post in Southeast Asia, built for a presence with no body and furnished with a tray at its base for offerings. The brass frame is a cube with a pitched roof, drawn in linear … Continue reading Geisthaus
