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'BODIES OF WORK'
This body of work combines elements of the human figure with mechanical components.
The obvious function and logic of industrial age machines is visible and understandable. During the industrial age machines were designed to ‘pick up’ where the human body ‘left off’ in terms of work capacity and capability. Many industrial age machines were designed as natural extensions of the human anatomy. In contrast to the obvious visual ‘workings’ of industrial age machines, the ‘workings’ of todays digital age machines are simply invisible to most people. In each of these sculptures, fragments of the human figure combine and contrast with machine components.
This combination of human form and raw mechanical machinery produces a composition with associations to beauty and work and a ‘body of knowledge’ that we as humans share in the fabric of our collective memory.
'ORGANIC PLACES'
In this family of work, inventive spaces are conceived which draw on my background as a practicing and educating architect.
Each piece begins with a generating idea which relates to considering the normally utilitarian application of plywood and employing it as a sculptural material. A combination of forms, their proximity and gesture, create a composition that defines space around them and establish a dialog between inside and outside. The treatment at the edge of the work is developed to establish an attitude regarding how it occupies the larger space in which it is encountered. Most often the works have an organic quality that can be referenced to organisms and natural structures. Elements of nature, which may be quite small, are magnified and this dramatic change in scale presents associative shapes.
In these sculptures, a viewer can imagine being one inch tall and encountering a new and dynamic environment.
'PLANAR SERIES'
'PLANAR SERIES'
Innovative architectural forms and spaces are explored in this continuing series of sculpture. Planar elements are shaped and combined to express their complex connections to one another and to test structural systems.
Their resultant compositions demonstrate varieties of defined space.