Broken
The Disempowered everyman in the moment before his inevitable demise.
I was thinking about how humiliating and degrading it feels to have your ability to defend yourself taken away.
Hands
We were having a meeting at our studio when one of my partners told us about a guy fire spinning who got 2nd degree burns on his hands. "he works as a professional photographer..." we all silently looked at our hands.
Hands have always been a theme in my work. I'm not entirely sure why. They've always fascinated me, both mechanically and conceptually.
Focus
This is what happens when I need to condense all the noise in my head...
Sisyphus
The focus I wanted to place is on the Everyman's existential burden: The ball is hollow suggesting his struggle is a mental and emotional curse.
Escher
I had started with the ball as an experiment with contouring. The stand is meant to invite the viewer to pick up the ball.
In the end the sculpture reminded me of Escher's self portrait drawing.
Crane
A friend had asked me to make her an origami paper crane out of metal. My first version was simpler and more literal, so I decided to try and take it a step further, while still maintaining elements of the original concept.
Restless
With a nod to the Japanese forest spirits 'Kodama'. This is a depiction of the the thoughts, feelings fears and drives that reside within all of us. The demons that plague us and the angels that free us.
Perch
Perch is all about contrast: in the process the bird was cobbled together from random bits and ground into shape, where as the hand is the result of a refined process. Esthetically the bird is rough and haphazard, and the hand is clean and thought out.
Hush
We live in divisive times. Politics, and opinions have become so deeply polarized that there's no longer discussion, dialogue or compromise. There is only us vs. them.
I Dream
This is the first of a series, all made from I beam. Its the most ugly and difficult of material, so its a personal challenge to make it something remarkable.
This is the Phoenix rising from the I beam. I left it half finished to honor the process.
Shell
The first using the process with a framework from welding rod then back welded with mis and textured with 6010 on the front, and a brass finish.
"I remember the person I used to be, but he's a stranger to me now. Striped of what made him special, and hollowed out...
now all that is left is this shell."
Storm
The same process as 'Shell' but taken a step further.
'I feel like I've been waiting for a storm to pass, that fear of impending doom...
but the storm will never pass, and the dawn will never break"
Octopus
A piece made for a friend
Bear
A piece made for a visiting relative "I want to see a bear!". Alas, we saw no bears, so this is for her.
