| The piece as I had originally conceived it, was ruined. I embraced an extropic approach to the whole thing and set about reinventing the project. I looked at it as a wayward monster; the uncontrollable and unforseen product of my playing with matter. The rods that were to be straight and rigid now became long wires whose bends and twists made their connective abilities impossible. From the cracks issued an uncontrollable white fluid mass which I began to see as the sculpture's attempt to transcend it's own failure. It acts with an intellect of its own as it pours out of its shell and congeals into an incomplete self portrait. So what was originally conceived as a sculpture to house my consciousness seemed to possess its own survival instinct. It recognized the failure of its orginal design and attempted to build a vessel in which it could transcend. Click here to see a slide show of Extropy. |
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Microcosmos 15"x12"x10" Sculpey with electrical wire, armature wire and wood. 2001 |
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| This piece shows a self portrait broken up into separate regions interconnected by wires. Travelling along these wires are small beads, pieces of information that connect each region with the other regions. On the inside of each of these islands is a different landscape representing various earthly terrains. Click here to see a slide show. |
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| Click the thumbnails above to see details of all of the landscapes. |
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Magnetic Tree 16"x16"x20" Sculpey with wood, wire and magnets with steel base. 2001. |
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Magnetic Tree is made up of segments that stack using magnets. It stands solely on the strength of the magnets and the distribution of weight. The idea was to create something that had multiple configurations based on decisions made during it's assembly. The narrative of this tree's creation is therefore multi-directional; not necessarily following one path but many on the way to completion. One can imagine a map of the possible configurations being a large tree diagram with branches for each of the many possible stacking arrangements. Click here to see a slideshow of a variety of magnetic trees. |
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Tree 15"x13"x14" Acrylic and Sculpey on aluminum cylinder and wood. 2002
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Like the Magnetic Tree, this piece is another variable sculpture where the tree 'grows' by stacking different 'beads' of foliage onto bare branches. At the base of the sculpture is a rod on which beads not used on the tree can be stacked. The beads are a sculptural vocabulary or alphabet used to create the tree. Click here to see a slide show of tree configurations. |
| Here are some photos of what some of the individual beads look like. |
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