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                                                  Landscape 3
                                                    silver and ebony
                                                                     7.5" x8" x 8"
Botanica
      copper and brass
        40" x 19" x 8"

     

 
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Resonance
bronze and steel
21" x 18" x 6"
 This piece is about (among other things) the
conception performance and perception of music



  

 

 

Checkmate
copper, marble

This combines a chess theme with a meditation on the complexities of social relationships.

Masks
upper left bronze, others copper

These masks were first sculpted in wax. The bronze (upper left) was then cast with a standard
lost wax process. I used an electroforming process similar to copper plating and a simple hammering process
to make the other three

The Balance           
copper, brass, steel             
9.5"x9"x1"            

       







Introversion
copper
36"x24"x27"
 



Fragment 2
copper
24" x 17"x8"

                                                                       
      Apple Tree
      silver, pearls

Highbeam
steel

15" x13" x4"

This piece contrasts the subtlety of the human body with the simplicity and bluntness of the steel.

Fragment 1
electroformed copper
18" x 14" x 7"

This is about trying to remember the face
of someone you've almost forgotten.

 

my steel tree series

My series of tree sculptures is a result of: [a] becoming fascinated by
convoluted trees over the course of my summer hiking
and [b] getting a new oxy-acetylene welding set up.

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Celtic Fiddle
copper, brass
5" x 2.5" x.5" (without stand)

A tribute to my fiddle. The Pictish design generated with CorelDraw

 

 

 

Pod
copper, steel, polymer clay
12" x 12" x 9"

A piece inspired by the intricate
structures that plants produce to
protect their developing seeds




mask of John
(posed on the shore of the Severn River in Green Park, Annapolis,MD)


 

                     

 

 Chain of Being
   bronze, steel, seashell
    14" x 13" x 12"

  

                                                Bernard's Piece 


Trilingua
bronze, steel, clayboard
26" x 9" x 4"

A triptych addressing the subject of how subtle
implications of the same word can vary from language to language.


Julia

22" x 12" x 9"
copper and steel

Lately I've been using patinas as a symbolic

device. This dark patina is liver of sulfer.

Odalisque
bronze
21" x 15" x 9"

I've been experimenting with the idea of reflecting the
sinuous motion of the human body by sculpting draped fabric

More Cloth Studies

The way a piece of cloth draps is so incidental it seems strange to render it
in such a hard, durable medium.In my work, the image of a bunched piece of
cloth can symbolize the desire to freeze time.

 

 

Body Mask #2
copper
24" x 14" x 6"

When I display my copper torsos, I like to hang them
at the same height as the viewer's body, so they seem like a reflection
of the viewer



 

screen sculpture
a new medium, still in the experimental phase. I find the fact that the object is "there" but also "not there" very intriguing.






Help Me to Understand
polymer clay

this piece was a reaction to the events of
9/11/2001




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