Survey (there is a train a-coming)

2020

Portion of a surveyor’s rod, with a section of a gold mine rail used for ore carts, and a rusted steel point

35.5”x14”x3.5”

This was made as a trade for a piece of sculpture with another friend. He stipulated that I would need to include an object he would send me, which was the piece of ore cart rail. The surveyors rod had been given to me by another sculptor. Their union into a cross was suggested by music – the hymn “When I survey the wondrous cross” by Issac Watts, and Eva Cassidy’s version of “People get ready”.

ALL MY SINS

1996-1997

Cherry, lead, hand blown glass, paper ash, silicon 36.5″ h x 24.5″ w x 5″ d

Salt Lick Cross

1993

Porter Memorial, Walworth U.C.C. Church Walworth Wise Salt, hot rolled steel, maple

36″ x 52″

Icon

1978

Coal, neon, stainless steel

80″ h, 18″ w, 12″ d

Testimonies of Nature

1991

Burnt cherry, gold leaf, patinaed copper

18″ h, 26″ w, 9.5″ deep)

Private collection

The Good, The True, and the Beautiful

1998-1999

Steel, stone, silver (applied by “sputtering target”)

 Table

34.5″ h x 14.5″ w x 48″ long

The three river stones in The Good, the True, and the Beautiful were taken from the Wild Ammonoosuc river west of Kinsman Notch, NH. They were selected as forms embodying the three historic and universal ideas that have played such a significant role in philosophy and theology. The stones were coated with silver at a foundry in AZ, using an aerospace process known as “sputtering target”.

Night Canopy

1981-1983

Graphite filled resin and argon filled tubing, 88” across top, 26” across bottom, 68” high

Herman's Dream

1979

Coal, argon tubing, stainless steel

58″ tall, base 14″ x 14″

Private collection

Herman’s Dream was one of my first uses of coal, which has a raw, out of the earth sensibility. Herman Snyder was an influential sculptor and teacher, whose life and art involved darkness and illumination, the raw and the refined, bluntness and grace, and the desire to transcend natural conditions like weight.

Taste and See

1996-1997

Butternut, Colorado marble, hand blown glass, Tupelo honey

26″ l, 11.5″ w, 34.5″ d

Nature and Grace

1996-1997

Aanthracite, mild steel, plate glass, resin, glass cloth, gold leaf

46.5″ h, 13.5″ w, 42.5″ l