SCULPTURE
2025 – Present
This work represents the physical evolution of a twenty-five year inquiry into structural logic and equilibrium. Originating in the photographic Figurative Structures system—where the figure functioned as a structural variable—the investigation now engages the tangible reality of three-dimensional form.
Executed in solid-cast hydrostone, these structures translate the conceptual tension of the image into physical form. No longer constrained by the two-dimensional frame, the inquiry shifts from captured equilibrium to equilibrium that must be physically sustained.
STILLNESS, HELD
A Study in Active Equilibrium.
The series investigates equilibrium held in permanent tension—presence without performance. The work is governed by the integration of complementary opposites, where disparate states are synthesized into a single, unified form.
STILLNESS, HELD: TORSION
2025. Solid-Cast Hydrostone with Acrylic Patina. 26.75 × 19.7 × 19.7 in.
Stillness, Held: Torsion eliminates narrative gesture to focus entirely on internal architecture. The composition concentrates complementary qualities within the human core. The pelvis anchors while the torso spirals in opposition — the curvature of the central abdominal line revealing a degree of rotation the living body passes through in a fraction of a second but cannot hold. The cast stone holds it permanently. The torsion is neither released nor resolved. It is held — movement and permanence achieving a harmony in which each transforms the other into what neither could be alone.
STILLNESS, HELD: TACIT
2025. Solid-Cast Hydrostone with Acrylic Patina. 21 x 11 x 11 in.
A study in active equilibrium, Tacit reframes the portrait bust through withdrawal rather than engagement. The closed eyes eliminate address — the figure neither engages nor reveals. Yet the lips part, admitting breath: withdrawal sustained without cessation. Where the face withholds, the hair releases — a suspended unfolding of accumulated mass given over to gravity. Conceived fully in the round, front and back function as distinct, interdependent resolutions: containment against release, interiority against extension. Presence emerges from the proportion between what is held back and what is put forward.
