Kitty Condo "Renovation", 2007
Kitty Condo "Renovation", 2007
Sleep Under the Tree, 2006
Sleep Under the Tree, 2006
Sleep Under the Tree, 2006
The Chained Man: Phase 2, 2004
(Sneak Peak) Chained Man: Phase 2
The Chained Man (Phase 1), 2004
Copper Unity Table - Wedding Gift, 2004
Transformed Transmission, 2004
I welded this cross together with scrap metal and then placed it in my front yard. It may be a little hard to see.
I placed this sculpture on the antique mirror of our sitting room. It can be taken off without harming the mirror, should I choose to change it.
This is a "condo" I made to centralize all the cat stuff. As a wise friend said, "That tissue paper ain't gonna last long around them cats!" And she was right. Thus, I added cloth curtains and did a funky patch job on the first level. I also moved around the toys to accommodate their desire to both sleep on the very top. I was thinking about putting white cloth/tissue paper as a joke on the very top, to make it look like a billowing four poster bed `a la a romance novel. This may look a little junky ("derelique"!) but hey... it's for my cats.
Someone just had to pose for the camera. :)
I placed this sculpture on the antique mirror of our sitting room. It can be taken off without harming the mirror, should I choose to change it.
I made a tree sculpture for my dad's bedroom.
It's anything you want it to be within your heart.
Or so I think. No matter how many pictures I take of this, it looks different in the photographs than it does in real life. These are layers of translucent skin over a chain carcass; initially, the entire frame was covered in the "skin".... but then I purposefully ripped holes in it. Click on the picture- there's an explanation.
Update: I poured red hair dye all over it and left it in my mother’s garage. It looks all bloody. She hates it.
2008 update: I pulled the Chained Man apart and welded him to a pole in my backyard. I plan to eventually make him larger than life.
After I covered him with a pale skin- he attacked me. For being 4 feet tall, he's very heavy. He left a few bruises on me when he decided to topple over, so at the moment I am toying with him in delicious torture sessions. I am picking off pieces of his translucent skin just to watch him suffer.
(Note: I'm actually not psycho, I'm just seeing if I need to add and expose more chain. It looks better with pieces of the inside chain-skeletal structure exposed, instead of being completely covered by the "skin.")
This statue's skeletal structure is made entirely of chains and a few supporting bars. The spikes sticking out of his back are old railroad spikes.
This is no statement about men, but rather about the human ability to pull oneself up, even if chained inside, with wings made of iron.
Hammered copper over a metal machinery part. Three legs, all entwined with wood and garnished with dogwood flowers. (Dogwood was the floral theme of the wedding)
Created for the local bicycle club.
"Obviously this isn't a whole transmission- just part of a clutch." -Duckman
Featured here in its natural habitat (photographed with the bedroom junk), this unit was made in about five minutes by utilizing rebar and large gears, plus one hubcap. The gears are purposefully askew.