Form and Shape

Significant sculpture has always meant a physical dimension married to an emotional response. The space that sculpture exists in has always been my fundamental concern. The weight, density and size occupied by sculpture in space has been a defining element in my work. However, the process of building sculpture in space is a critical event that the completed piece documents. In other words, evidence of how the pieces are cut, sized, put together and built should be visually present within the structure itself.

Rather than a subtractive kind of sculpture, my work basically is involved with additive components. These components I feel mirror the component building blocks in contemporary society. So rather than carving out or digging mass, my approach involves stacking and adding units for mass. I strive to have each of these component units visually apparent in the building process. In form and shape the visual bulk and simplistic outline inherent in basic form is what my work is about, rather than the extensions and cantilevered components of appendages. Compositional grace and appropriate proportions relate directly to time, form, and shape and my attempt to connect these contemporary approaches to archaic sculpture is my endeavor.

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