Sculpture

Centrifugal Force series

I once found a tire remnant that looked so much like a Zen circle. Inspired by this vision, my thoughts quickly made a connection for me between the dramatic event of Centrifugal Force and failed material that created this tire remnant and the meditative symbolic Zen Ensō. The Ensō circle is a symbol of wholeness, completion, and returning full circle, an artistic expression of enlightenment. In drawing the Ensō, there is no perfect result necessary or expected, for each passage of creation is one of a kind in its own moment in time. Therein lies the beauty of Ensō and all art making.. it is the individual's own expressive mark.

My mind worked with these two concepts. I created a series of wall sculptures that mingle the circle of life and the failed material of a circle that carries life on our roadways, revealing the fragility of a thing we depend on and trust so nonchalantly every day, showing how our circle of life can be so easily disrupted and broken, yet presenting a sculpture with these materials that is interesting and interpreted by the viewer.

Mixed Media - Paper on Canvas

Shredded Paper and Gesso on Canvas - inspired by most everything I find or see, I could not let these shredded leftovers of paper go. I now make a series of three-dimensional paintings that often reveal clever little secret texts that could be meaningful only to the viewer.

Bird series

As I worked on photographing the buttresses of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys for my 'Nature Painting' project, I would see Cormorants and Pelicans sunning themselves or searching for food with their 'bird's eye view' from its railings. This and my previous work cutting and painting recycled aluminum for sculptures inspired me to make several series of bird sculptures. I like the challenge of using various materials to create. The main body is aluminum mesh fabric material, cut into a pattern that could be bent for the body of a bird, then painted aluminum 'feathers' are glued on with high quality archival art glue. Beads made from minerals represent eyes.

Color Play series

The organic forms that develop themselves in my 'Evaporation' paintings seem to come alive and want to jump out of the canvas into three-dimensional space. This resulted in the development of my newest series of sculptures that are made of painted aluminum and steel. The materials are hand or spray-painted and the shapes are wired (to imitate drawing) onto the form or welded to complete assemblies. These sculptures have a sense of passionate play and erotica, as well as the possibility of violence. Struggling to evolve from a mire of atomic soup, they convey a total sense of joy and a celebration of life in its most basic attitudes.

Mixed Media - Clay, Wood, Metal

I combine clays, organic materials, and oxidized metals to create mysterious, provocative environments or to present complementary or adverse relationships between materials. These assemblies are the recognition of the beauty found in various materials discarded as waste. Influenced by the science of materials, I am offering the viewer a visual representation of the beautiful colors and textures that occur during physical and chemical reactions toward these found materials. The sculptures or ‘three dimensional paintings’ are often about time, forces of nature (such as currents and flow), trees and wood, particle materials, minerals and fossils, line and form, all elements in nature.

Jewels From Wilma

The simplicity of my glass installation for Sculpture Key West -2012, “Jewels From Wilma- Florida Keys Water 'Frozen' in Time”, lying in a large pile as I found it beside the road on Grassy Key the day after Hurricane Wilma passed by the Keys, is the most beautiful image for me to present to the viewer. Theoretically, the particles of broken glass fit perfectly into my work with particle materials. Visually, it looks as if the beautiful water of the Keys has been frozen into jewels. It creates for the viewer a connection with Nature through recycled glass, a connection to the Science of Nature through particles of material. The process of Nature redefining the man-made and my further acceptance and use of the transformed material is like an alchemical collaboration between art and science. Installing this art as I found it and creating small sculptures is a way of sharing my experience (as one caretaker of our environment) with a broad audience; to inspire them to keep our environment safe and clean, sharing a positive message about beauty that can be gained from the aesthetic experience of appreciating a recycled material as art, as well as giving examples of how we can recycle and reuse discards in creative ways.

La Danse de la Vie

The organic forms that develop themselves in my 'Evaporation' paintings seem to come alive and want to jump out of the canvas into three-dimensional space. This resulted in the development of my newest series of sculptures that are made of painted aluminum and steel. The materials are hand or spray-painted and the shapes are wired (to imitate drawing) onto the form or welded to complete assemblies. These sculptures have a sense of passionate play and erotica, as well as the possibility of violence. Struggling to evolve from a mire of atomic soup, they convey a total sense of joy and a celebration of life in its most basic attitudes.

New Species - I - welded steel

The organic forms that develop themselves in my 'Evaporation' paintings seem to come alive and want to jump out of the canvas into three-dimensional space. This resulted in the development of my 'New Species I' series of sculptures that are made of painted steel. The pieces are spontaneously 'blind' drawn on steel sheets, cut and welded by me and an assistant to my designing as we work, then hand, spray, or powder coat painted to complete the assemblies. These sculptures have a sense of passionate play and erotica, as well as the possibility of violence. Struggling to evolve from a mire of atomic soup, they convey a total sense of joy and a celebration of life in its most basic attitudes.

New Species - II - bent aluminum

The organic forms that develop themselves in my 'Evaporation' paintings seem to come alive and want to jump out of the canvas into three-dimensional space. This resulted in the development of my 'New Species II' series of sculptures that are made of painted aluminum. The pieces are spontaneously 'blind' drawn on aluminum sheets, cut and bent by me with an assistant to my designing as we work, then powder coat painted to complete the assemblies. These sculptures have a sense of passionate play and erotica, as well as the possibility of violence. Struggling to evolve from a mire of atomic soup, they convey a total sense of joy and a celebration of life in its most basic attitudes.