Bail Out, 2021. Cast bronze, yarn, wood, rope, flocking.
Ruby, 2020. Cast bronze, acrylic yarn, wood, flocking, silver leaf. 61 inches L x 30 inches W x 7 inches D (from the wall).
Crown, 2020. Cast bronze, acrylic yarn, wood, flocking. 27 inches L x 21 inches W x 18 inches D (from the wall).
Spinal (self portrait), 2018-19. Cast bronze, acrylic yarn, wood, flocking. 48 inches L x 33 inches W x 11 inches D (from the wall).
Tusk, 2016. Enameled (powder coated) cast bronze. 28 inches L x 12 inches W. Tusk (Broken), 2017. Cast resin, brass rivets, suede flocking
Tusk. Enameled bronze, 2016
Trunk, 2014-2020. Cast and fabricated bronze. 72 inches L x 24 inches H (open) x 21 inches W (wip).
Items we keep and store start to define us and become the image of ourselves stored in our minds.” I woke up with that initial thought and began the creation of “Trunk.” which is an image of storage itself, a sarcophagus transforming into an old steamer trunk used to store items that have become precious and hold self definition. I combined text as a texture and dates within the text that correspond with every year of my life. In this way, Trunk has become a time capsule or even a time machine for any given year, a record of who I am to this point in time. The items collected along that journey, are the items kept and stored: from people I have known, places I have been, a symbol of who I am.
Most of the items in my trunk are visible here with the exception of the key and straps.
There is a pomegranate in my Trunk.
And there is the mango.
Wire brushing the bronze this evening-- So many details. So little time.
Shovel strapped.
"Stitching" the top this evening. God is in the details.
While taking a break for some water I'll post you a pic of the woven underside. Not easy to see when it's shown unless you get down on your knees in the gallery.
Some times after working on your sculpture all day you just want to take a break and think about it.
Don't kick the stick.
Hidden details.
Etched.
My bronze record for my bronze record player! Shazam!
Bury, 2016. Cast and fabricated bronze. 25 inches L (draped) x 10 inches W. Shovel: 44 inches L x 8 inches W
'The persistence of memory(ies)' that are sometimes buried.
After 3 buries- once in the mud under the lake, two in the ground under the soil and wet leaves, it has finally made it back to the city and the patina is amazing.
Tumbleweed, 2016. Cast and fabricated bronze, suede flocking. Each shovel: 46 inches L x 12 inches W. Dimensions vary with position.
"See them tumbling down,
Pledging their love to the ground!
Lonely, but free, I'll be found,
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds"
Intimate Brooms, 2017. Patina/finish completed 2020. Cast Bronze. 53.5 inches L x 15 inches W x 6 inches (full scale brooms).
Basin, 2017. Cast and fabricated bronze, flocking. 24 inches L x 20 inches W x 20 inches H.
Cast bronze, suede flocking, crocodile skin shoes, red leather strap, nylon stitching, travertine base.
In my reconstruction series, I have taken personal items from my past and transformed them back towards their previous state before I acquired them. In Reconstruction #1, I have transformed a pair of crocodile shoes which I bought in Bamako, Mali. The shoes are stitched on cast bronze (soles/teeth and jaws). The stand is felted cast bronze mounted on a travertine base. The red strap is made of leather.
Bread, 2016. Red oak, cast bronze, maple, oil paint. 28 inches L x 18 inches W x 15 inches H. Bread started as a large red oak carving of a bread loaf. I took a rubber mold off of a fallen tree and reproduced the bark in wax to form around the loaf. The wax was cut off and cast in bronze and then welded back around the oak bread loaf.
Making bread.
Bread (version #2), 2017. Cast bronze, oak, silver plating. 24 inches L x 23 inches W x 19 inches H.
Enameled (powder coated) etched steel, cast bronze, original bronze saw hardware.
Pulled, 2020. Stained wood, acrylic yarn.
Etched steel axe head, cast and fabricated bronze.
Oil on canvas, 7' x 5'. Hole is a companion piece to Trunk. I painted a hole big enough to fit "Trunk" (6' x 2'). I plan to paint a series of holes for every piece in this new body of work.
