Going with the Flow
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Sailing on a Silent Sea
One granite boulder served triple duty in my studio in contributing to three sculptures. Three more sculptures came from one basalt sculpture and its chips. All a...
Recursion
Recursion began as a meditation on a mathematical concept, recursion, an important idea in my research on animal intelligence and my teaching. The idea receded into the ...
The Guardian
Then George Drake invited me to show a large stone sculpture in a memorial exhibition for influential B.C. sculptor David Marshall. The venue was the Big Rock Garden in...
Scoria
Scoria is named after the stone I carved it in - scoria. As long as I directed light effectively to reveal high places and used my whole body to guide the to...
Anima
For me, and I think for many who experience these sculptures, they evoke strong feminine energy. This is consistent with Carl Jung’s notion of Anima and An...
In Love and Soaring
Soaring soars for me in two ways. It thrusts "up, up and away" from its connection to the earth, even while remaining rooted to the ground. It also feels ready to tak...
Listening to the Wind
The naturally-layered light/dark green mudstone of the original accentuates the form, as would any other laminar medium, and invites it to Pop! vividly into 3D perception...
The Gift
While I was still carving The Gift, a snapshot of the sculpture helped my 14 year-old grandson Amaris understand geometric transformations. One of the two component sha...
The Granite Madonna
I took several years to decide which way was up on this granite boulder. I took the easy way out by putting the heavy end down, and now the sculpture balance...
Eternal Flame
The translucency of the stone imposed two simple constraints and Eternal Flame’s form satisfies both. Twin convex upper surfaces collect light from all directions and s...
Heart of Anima
When the backhoe clearing for my studio unearthed this boulder and it was still tumbling, I hollered “Halt!” Even as a dirty, muddy, greenish coloured stone, it sug...
Reflections
Here is the story of the travertine pool inlaid into the granite base. Sculptors must decide which way is up on their sculptures - - establish the vertical axis. Somet...
Torso with Gloves
Eerily glowing light green layers of translucency. Masses of dark green opacity. Pinks, intermediate in hardness between the greens, all of them bordering each other...
