Soldered brass, 13 x 19 x 9, 2018. The Sirens of the Odyssey promise knowledge: they offer to tell the listener everything that happens on the fertile earth. Odysseus survives by being tied to the mast while his crew’s ears are stopped. The lure is a promise of interior knowledge, and the defence is restraint. … Continue reading Siren Song
Soldered brass, steel, 21 x 33 x 12, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. The work holds together the two things Irish song has always held together: a landscape and a voice. A single wire line runs through the frame, rising and falling in loose swells. It reads as the … Continue reading Irish Song
Soldered brass, iron, 20 x 15 x 10, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. The title joins two senses of a word. Gallows humour is the joke made in the face of death. Humorism is the Greek medical doctrine that health is a balance of four bodily fluids, with temperament set … Continue reading Gallows Humorism
Soldered brass, iron, 12 x 9 x 8, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. A fountain is water given a shape, and this one has no water in it. Every element that would carry the flow is metal: the leaf that hangs in a falling line, the curved rod that arcs … Continue reading Fountain
Soldered brass, steel, 23 x 19 x 19, 2018. Created in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. A spirit house is set up on a property so that the guardian of the land has a dwelling of its own and no reason to resent the people living there. The custom is a courtesy … Continue reading Spirit House
