The undulating kiln formed 1" thick annealed glass mimics the movement of the river (the water).The visual and physical limits set by the I-Beam echoes those of confinements set by the river's edge (the land). Contrasts echoing life, movement/ captivity, freedom/ restriction, glass expressing the movement and rhythm of energy, steel defining the path of that energy.
My work is bifurcated, that which is beauty, linear, buried in technical control and perfection and that which is aggressive, strongly metaphorical, overtly political, bound with intent, visually literal, and physically imposing. The latter finds the glass sagaciously welding an alliance with the constraining, constricting imposing steel I-Beam. A melding of the personal, national, and political, circuitously questioning "Where are we going?" "What have we done to get where we are?" These forms merge the feelings promulgated by life's harsh truths.
From that which is beauty emerges a pursuit of line. Line evolving from the drawings of the female nude. Line expressing movement and the rhythm of energy. Line creating forms through its extension, expressing my primary sculptural concerns with what I call Linear Form. That is, the integration of line with, on, and in form; line as form and form as line and the effect and interaction of line and form with and on each other. In this work the glass medium pulls the on-looker inside itself. The edges which may appear as line draw the viewer into the form through themselves. The form seduces the viewer by its overt physical beauty.
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