Welded steel, 70 x 20 x 23, 2007. A headdress normally announces rank to onlookers. A dreamer’s would give the dream a place to enter and a place to stay, and this one has the features for both. It’s a tall hollow shell, far larger than the head beneath it. A ring with an oval … Continue reading Dreamer
Welded steel, 74 x 18 x 18, 2007. Minerva is patron of wisdom and of the crafts, the goddess of people who work with their heads and hands. The portrait bust is the form a culture uses to honor someone it wants remembered: head and shoulders, raised on a column so that the viewer looks up. … Continue reading Minerva
Painted welded steel, 63 x 19 x 16, 2007. Ganesha is the god invoked first. An Indian classical dance or music recital customarily opens with a salutation to him, and so does the start of a book, a building or a journey. The remover of obstacles is the patron of beginnings, and an art has as … Continue reading Ganesha, Patron of the Arts
Painted welded steel, 134 x 94 x 78, 2006. Ganesha is the god invoked before anything else begins, whether a journey, a marriage or a book, and “Destroyer of Obstacles” is one of his names. The obstacles here are boxes. They are pale yellow, plain and unmarked, stacked at angles, with the upper ones leaning out … Continue reading Destroyer of Obstacles
Painted welded steel, 84 x 36 x 36, 2006. In the story that explains his elephant head, Ganesha begins as a gatekeeper. Parvati sets him at her door while she bathes, with orders to admit no one. Shiva, her husband, arrives and is refused, and in the Shiva Purana he strikes the boy’s head off … Continue reading Guardian of the Golden Gate
