Texas Limestone
9" x 6" x 11"
(Private Collection)
Texas Limestone
10" x 4.5" x 10.5"
Tennessee Brown Marble
21" x 10" x 15"
I carried with me for years a very small wax maquette of this sculpture. It was not until I found the right stone that I began carving it. I first carved a one-to-one Styrofoam form. I built a pointing machine and learned how to use it. I had the time of my life making this piece.
Tennessee Brown Marble
21” x 10” x 15”
Wood & Limestone
48” x 8.5” x 8.5
(Collection of the Artist)
The wood is Texas Ash. My neighbor had a tree cut down. I was astonished how straight a section of the trunk was laying on the ground. I took it and propped it up in my garage for several years it sat. Years later after moving to Michigan I got the idea for the form.
Wood & Limestone
48” x 8.5” x 8.5”
(Collection of the Artist)
(Private Collection)
The symbolism of the fish has many meanings. First, the water from which the fish exists represents the unknown, the subconscious and depth of knowledge. It is a deep and endless mystery. The fish represents, faith, adaptability in the wild, like the determined salmon that swims against the current great distances to return to its birthplace to continue the circle of life. The fish also represents abundance, transformation and creation...the flow of life.
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The tree lived for more than 80 years. The wood from the tree was first used to build a barn to shelter and sustain life for over 80 years. This same wood is reclaimed and reshaped by the artist to take on another purpose and meaning.
The tree lives on in the lives of others.
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Chemical etched ferns into steel.
The fern represents consciousness awakening. As the curled fronds of the young fern transforms towards the light and truth to flourish, so does man.
Found Objects
78" x 8.75" x 8.75"
(Collection of the Artist)
After returning to my childhood home after being gone for many years, I rediscovered these saw blades. They were hanging in the same place I remembered them as a child. The wood base was also rediscovered. In its raw form, it was nothing more than a stump used as a chopping block. Sculpting it revealed a beautiful piece of elm.
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Interactive Diorama
This interactive ephemeral piece invited the viewer to press a button on the pedestal, illuminating the inside of the creel that belonged to my father. The viewer was encouraged to peek inside. Inside was forest floor living matter, including; soil, ferns, lichen, seed pods, fishing lures, all symbolizing a boy’s memory walking the path along a trout stream with his father. Using sight and smell, the viewer experienced a recollection of a place in time.
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During the monthlong exhibit, the plants inside the creel were nurtured and continued to grow.
Altered found objects
9" x 16" x 3.5"
The vision of this piece came to me in a dream where a Greek god-like figure was shooting ice rays from the end of a whiskbroom that was shaped like a wishbone.
Altered found objects
9" x 16" x 3.5"
Found Objects & Sandstone
16" x 6" x 6"
(Collection of the Artist)
A collection of objects found in my father’s workshop. Having returned after being gone for many years, I recapture my childhood years recollecting the times spent in my father’s workshop. The mason jar is chemically etched to obscure the contents, suggesting a vague memory. The stone base is the same stone of which the family house is built.
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Carpet tacks and shark teeth
”3.5" x 3.5" x 2"
A friend once told me that I worry too much. Later I thought to myself, then why am I not worried fishing in the surf with shark swimming around me?
Installation View
"In the Golden Hour"
Plaster, gold Leaf, painted steel & Texas Limestone
The golden hour is the period of time in the day when the sun rises and sets. The winds are generally low and the waterscape is flooded with gorgeous light. The fish are often active during this period.
18" x 4" x 4"
14” x 7” x 7”
A collection/construction of aged found objects including a child’s keepsakes.
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