Sculpture Series

The Deflated Object series is new, however the idea is not. In the mid 2000s when I was teaching sculpture at St. Paul's School in NH, I assigned this project to students in a casting class. The idea initially was to make ceramic slip castings [...]

The Control Box series is primarily an exploration of my (maybe our) relationship with control.  These pieces reference systems of control which originated in the 20th century when mechanical processes were not yet superseded by digital systems; this at a minimum allows for interesting physical objects. [...]

The Estate Sale series is a group of sculptures with one or more focal elements that could be found at an estate sale. Thus far each piece in the series is named after a light source and has a wooden replica of a household object, [...]

This series of pieces began during graduate school in philosophy. The original argument that has been arbitrarily titled X6PM42 focuses on a very old concept of a thing-in-itself. As it turns out it's quite a challenge to figure out a thing's essence. Others might construe [...]

The Procedural Series began roughly five years ago with Grasping Stillness...a carved hand at the end of a chain. The chain-hand on a chaotic background is a reminder of what we might "do" to aid in being more still, aware maybe, in the buzzing, blooming [...]

The freedom of the stone is an apt metaphor for seeing something interesting in these stone-on-pillow pieces; full disclosure, this expression, "freedom of the stone," is not my invention and I do not know where it originated. There are also instances where found concrete and [...]