Kekule’s Dream
According to my Grandpa Dale, hoopsnakes "get themselves up like a bicycle wheel and roll down the road, faster than a little boy can run!” Because hoopsnakes employ ...
Spirit Man
On occasion, Spirit Man evokes strong emotional responses in viewers, triggered by the blood apparently trickling from the nose and mouth of the figure. For some, the f...
Holding Firm at 65
Holding Firm at 65 began life as the head of Torso in Motion, which I dropped on the floor the night I finished it. It broke into four pieces. The head rolled...
Green Head
How can four smooth surfaces accomplish all that, together with pieces of scrap metal and pool table slate? Two concave surfaces mirror each other left and right. Con...
Borneo Man
When a stone processing plant near Vancouver went broke one year, they sold raw stone at very good prices. My sculptor friend Georg Schmerholz and I each bought several...
With Child
I collected this marble from a quarry in Georgia in the early 1990s and didn’t carve With Child for 20 years. Here is the short version of how I got the stone. I h...
Torso in Motion
This third Dream Person, begun 10 years after the second and completed another decade later, was to be twice as tall as the second, just as the second is twice as tall as...
Pride is an Island
Over time, I came to see the figure as isolated by pride on a small island, out of contact with other humans from arrogance or rejection. Both of those fantasie...
Meditation
Meditation is an experiment in form and texture. Like several other sculptures of mine, it has only two surfaces, in this case the outer one highly polished and the inner...
Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child, Girlchild Reflected in Her Mother’s Eye, all four Anima sculptures, Meditation, and Reflections all have one or two smooth, gently curving, ho...
Lynne
That the real Lynn was beautiful and open-hearted was transparent. Anyone could see it and most people did. But she had a well-practiced habit of denying her beauty, soft...
Girlchild Reflected in her Mother’s Eye
Rather than carving a fully 3D figure, I incised it deeply into the stone in deep relief. A polished bronze insert reflects light up onto a polished basalt sphere, whic...
Dream Person
Dream Person came to me literally in a dream. It tumbled slowly in space for what seemed like centuries, I awoke briefly, sketched it on paper and returned to the dream....
Defiance
I completed Defiance that way, as I completed many others - - meeting by meeting and especially in office hours. I remember how it felt to slide my thumb along the form...
Black Surfer
I felt as if I were scooping stone from the rock instead of chipping it to make those chips. In an instant, literally in a single stroke, chips came into being, each as...
