THE QUEEN of the collection. Mermaid Skeleton. This is my first three dimensional sculpture. She came to me from the materials. Some mornings I would just go stand out in my side yard in all the metal scrap and ask what was next for her. For over a year she has been coming together, piece by piece, bone by bone. An idea would strike me and I would scribble it down or run out there and see what I could find … I saw her and then she slowly started to emerge. I had to work from the inside out, go to the bones, the structure, the integrity of the piece. I had to follow the weight of the material and let that direct her position and flow. I made many faces for her - stone, coral, sheet metal, huge shell … I tried them all. Then I had a dream about her, I saw her emerging from the depths of the ocean in all her regal power and when I went to look at her face, to see what the material was, I saw my own reflection. Her face was a mirror. She is all of us. Emerging, embodied, raw, divine.
Materials: Found steel pipe, brake rotor, shovel heads, steel coil, rebar, copper tubing, saw blades, steel files, drill bits, steel chain, hand foraged spiny oyster and abalone shells, mirror, cowrie shells and copper wire.
Dimensions: 44 inches tall, 5 feet long, 20 inches wide
THE QUEEN of the collection. Mermaid Skeleton. This is my first three dimensional sculpture. She came to me from the materials. Some mornings I would just go stand out in my side yard in all the metal scrap and ask what was next for her. For over a year she has been coming together, piece by piece, bone by bone. An idea would strike me and I would scribble it down or run out there and see what I could find … I saw her and then she slowly started to emerge. I had to work from the inside out, go to the bones, the structure, the integrity of the piece. I had to follow the weight of the material and let that direct her position and flow. I made many faces for her - stone, coral, sheet metal, huge shell … I tried them all. Then I had a dream about her, I saw her emerging from the depths of the ocean in all her regal power and when I went to look at her face, to see what the material was, I saw my own reflection. Her face was a mirror. She is all of us. Emerging, embodied, raw, divine.
Materials: Found steel pipe, brake rotor, shovel heads, steel coil, rebar, copper tubing, saw blades, steel files, drill bits, steel chain, hand foraged spiny oyster and abalone shells, mirror, cowrie shells and copper wire.
Dimensions: 44 inches tall, 5 feet long, 20 inches wide
