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Another of my loose Cast Wax Sketches, albeit a bit more detailed than the rest. I have loved the look of these breeds ever since watching William Powell and Myrna Loy in the “Thin Man” movies from the 30’s. They had a great, spirited dog named Asta, a Welsh Terrier, that darted in and out…
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This was one of the first animals in my Square Menagerie to gain some serious height, at least, for my sculptures. More importantly, this was my first dance with carving negative space into a sculpture. Once I had my wax original completed (with the body and neck as one piece, set apart from the four…
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When I started my Square Menagerie series, I created exotic African animals. And this moose. Actually, there were a number of moose. (Mooses? Meese? Mouseaux?). Somewhere out there, my friend, Rosa, has a daddy and baby girl moose, the latter splay-legged and awkward while her loving father stands nearby. My father-in-law has another in Lima,…
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Two lovers, enamored and entwined. Two friends, relaxed and comfortable together. Two giraffes, delighted and happy. What was fun with DUET was the happenstance in its creation. I decided to make a giraffe as part of my SQUARE MENAGERIE series. I liked it, so I made another. When I placed them side-by-side, I discovered that…
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The evening sky is many things: a cloaking curtain, a silent harbor, a veil of mystery. As I gaze skyward, remembering my day, wondering on my life, imagining my tomorrow, I can greet the darkness with relief or fear. Today is passing, veiled and fading. Its time has passed, its lessons are in place, if…
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Sometime after the end of the Twentieth Century, surviving the threatened Y2K end of civilization as we knew it (or at least, the pleasures of anytime, everywhere computing), I began a series of square-bodied bronze animals that continues to this day which I refer to collectively as my Square Menagerie. The very first animals were…
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Sometime in the early Twenty-first century, I began a series of square-bodied bronze animals that continues to this day which I refer to collectively as my Square Menagerie. The very first animals were African––a lion, several elephants, giraffes–and eventually, this small hippo. I loved the idea of having it poking up out of a jungle…
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The original was built from layers of hand-poured wax sheets, melted together, then cut, formed and joined. Once the body was complete, I cut the stripes out of the wax, intending them to be dark negative spaces to contrast with the ultimately mottled white patina. So that’s what I did. Cut, cut, cut. It was…
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This was my first horse sculpture, inspired by a beautiful reproduction of a Chinese Gansu horse that I have had for more than thirty years. I love the form of that Chinese piece, the perfect balance of the majestic animal running–perhaps flying, if you follow Chinese mythology–on one hoof. When I started this piece, I…
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This is the first vase I ever sculpted, if you don’t count that ceramic blob that I tried to make for my mom in high school. It remains my favorite. I poured molten wax onto a wet sheet of canvas, waited for the wax to cool, and then peeled it up. I tore some edges…
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Stay tuned for information on upcoming exhibitions of my work.
