Soldered brass, 8 x 7 x 8, 2016. A domed lid carries a pipe that bends over at its end, which reads as a still. Below it a cylinder on small feet, plated and pierced for bolts, with two tap-like fittings under the lid, reads as a spirit safe. Bushmills is a distillery whose licence … Continue reading The Taste of Bushmills
Soldered brass, 12 x 12 x 3, 2016. Swedish Fantasy is built from two concentric images of one country. The rim is a ring of twelve compartments packed with relief: architecture, crowds, streets. That is the format of the commemorative plate, which reduces a place to a sequence of views. The well at the center … Continue reading Swedish Fantasy
Soldered brass, 24 x 29 x 8, 2010. Park View (2010) is a wall-mounted brass relief sculpture that functions as an architectural and pictorial framing of space. Constructed from an assemblage of found domestic metalwork, the piece constructs a wide, irregular window onto empty wall space. Operating between low-relief sculpture and still-life painting, the assemblage … Continue reading Park View
Soldered brass, 2010. A satirical tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that critiques sensation-driven journalism, surveillance, and optical distortion. Structured like an antique box camera or projection lantern mounted on a baluster-shaped pedestal, the sculpture incorporates a large glass-lensed aperture, a tilted dish-like horn or receiver, and side-mounted eye and ear motifs. By styling the apparatus … Continue reading A Golden Age of Yellow Media
Soldered brass, 16 x 12 x 12, 2010. Hale Pahu i'a (2010) is a dense, architectural tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that constructs a vibrant marine shrine. Taking its title from Hawaiian—translating to "House of the Aquarium"—the work arranges an array of brass hardware and decorative marine castings into an enclosed vertical structure. At its … Continue reading Hale Pahu i’a
