Pride is an Island

Granite, serpentine. 1983. 7” high with base. Private collection.

Pride is an Island happened when I experimented with a new way of grinding stone without thinking in representational or symbolic terms. It was just a shape, produced by a set of movements. Mounted as I mounted it, however, it conjured images in my imagination. Sometimes I saw it as a bird, but usually it was a human figure expressing human thoughts, feelings, and attitudes.

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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 fantasies were projections on my part, of course, because what I think of as a sculpture is nothing more than a couple of rocks, a scrap of steel, a dab of glue, and a wonderful experience of shaping the stones.

Photos by Lee Gass.