Welded steel, 24 x 16 x 15, 2019. A seer is defined by two faculties, seeing what others cannot and saying it. The face has the first and begins on the second: eyes opened wide and round, brows drawn up into deep furrows over an old face, a small ribbed mark between them, and lips … Continue reading The Seer
Category: Figurative Steel
Hot Ganesha
Welded painted steel, 111 x 87 x 48, 2019. Nonextant. Ganesha is the pot-bellied god, and the sculpture takes the epithet literally: the belly is a firebox behind a mesh window, a pot-bellied stove, and when it is lit the smoke rises around the figure. The pun is plain and exact. Ganesha’s belly is said … Continue reading Hot Ganesha
Bala Ganesha
Painted welded steel, 16.5 x 21 x 12, 2015. Bala Ganesha holds Ganesha in a single instant of extreme physical extension: weight on one bent leg, the other kicked out fully horizontal, the whole mass held in a balance that reads as dance rather than pose. That silhouette is a direct citation of Nataraja, Shiva … Continue reading Bala Ganesha
True Believer
Welded steel, 18 x 16 x 9, 2014. Sculpted in welded steel, the life-sized bust presents a figure frozen in a moment of sublime encounter—an expressive state that bridges religious devotion, existential awakening, and psychological rapture. Through a rigorous interplay of industrial form and expressive surface technique, the work reinterprets classical portrait statuary and sacral sculpture … Continue reading True Believer
Master of the Cosmos
Painted welded steel, 70 x 24 x 20, 2011. Standing nearly six feet tall, Master of the Cosmos (2011) is a monumental assemblage in painted welded steel that merges sacred iconography, industrial scrap, and architectural framing. The sculpture features a central figure inspired by Ganesha—the Hindu deity of wisdom, new beginnings, and the removal of … Continue reading Master of the Cosmos
