Seeking Security

Seeking Security (2026)

Dimensions: 25″ x36″ x 10″

Materials: Ash, Walnut, Holly

This sculpture is the first in a series of works to be grouped under the label Architectural Salvage, or maybe just Salvage. This work, like most of the sculpture I make, seems to be a pointer to what’s happening. As succinctly as I can express this in words is, this work points to the problem of self-identification. Anyone who considers themselves a seeker of truth or reality, or something like, that will probably recognize some direct connections between the language used to describe what we as human beings are doing to cause the suffering we experience…albeit in a symbolized way here. There is a mechanism of attachment and there seems to be a heavy object to attach to. There is something getting attached, which is the physical manifestation of a negative space in the thing being grasped, i.e. the radiator. The walnut object at the end of the chain is as close as could be carved in shape to a/the negative space in one of the rungs of the radiator. This seems to be what we are doing as people.