Tempestuous Sleep
33.5"x70.5" plywood relief 2015 - 2017
Tempestuous Sleep in Progress
Here's some of the process of from when I was working on Tempestuous Sleep last summer.
The Steward
Plywood and steel rod
Oak Anvil 2017
Oak Anvil 2017
Making an anvil out of reclaimed oak
I made an anvil out of oak. It's a metaphor for objecthood and utility. It's a taking a useful, intractable thing like an anvil, and turning it into a decorative useless object. The wooden anvil grants a sort of quixotic hat-tip to things that are actually useful and hard to resist, like memory, time, the ocean or outer-space. A kind of reversal is happening. Also, I think it looks really cool.
Michael Swan
life-size, plaster 2015
Michael Swan
life-size, plaster 2015
Michael Swan
life-size, plaster 2015
Ziggy Star-Duck
Located in Lions Memorial Park, Norman, OK.
This is part of a community art project about which you can find more information here.
