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Sculpture, Metal on Wood
Size: 45 W x 51 H x 40 D in
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Goat is a simple and graceful piece of abstract sculpture. It stands directly on its legs without a base, its body delineated with a few lengths of copper tubing and textured cement, with a piece of chain-sawed cherry tree for a head and loops of copper tubing for horns. The figurative gesture is a goat turning in mid-stride. Goat began when I came across a pile of tree cuttings beside a city street. I was intrigued with the fabulously ornate patterns of growth and decomposition, exposed by the actions of the chain saw operator. One piece looked so much like a goat's head, I just wanted to celebrate that unintended likeness. I decided to make the piece with little intervention, leaving the tree cutting mostly unchanged—saw marks, weathering and all—and creating a simple, gestural “body” with lightly textured gray and white Portland cement/sand mix. The work is sealed only for interior display. Natural and human forces had conspired to set up this illusion—the tree lives its life, subject to climate change, insects, and finally a person with a chain saw—and I just took it a short distance from there. I would like for people to come away with a sense of excitement in collaboration with nature—how we could sometimes do less, and still play important roles in a grand conversation.
Sculpture:Metal on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:45 W x 51 H x 40 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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I greatly enjoy connecting with nature through sculpture. In my walks through woodlands in the northeast U.S., I am drawn to the fantastic diversity and adaptability of trees, marveling at the forms, textures, and colors of their roots, trunks, bark, and leaves. I gather fragments of fallen trees in my studio, study them, and see what they are hinting at. With these cues, as well as ideas and images from science, I seek to generate a dialogue between humanity and nature. These natural objects are intriguing to me because I find some aspect of humanness in them. I use the objects to help articulate a figure—a twisted vine becomes a spine, wavy bark becomes an undulating torso. These objects come to me already sculpted by nature—by genetics, storms, insects, or microbes—and it’s delightful to find clever new ways to employ their wonderful characteristics. Sometimes I’m thinking of a different animal—a bird or a bat—at the same time as a human. I want viewers to see my work as a space to feel free and explore what it is like to be human in such a complex universe.
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