PLAYING WITH FIRE
About the series:
I’ve always had a love for the places I’m told I should not go, for the things I’m warned are dangerous to the touch – and my proclivity for “running into fires wherever I may find them” if, one might say, just one of those things. Playing with Fire is a loose collection – rather than a series as such – that explores the mystery of this element so fundamental to human civilization and life as we know it: the dangers, the mysteries, the irresistible pull, and the consequence of flying Icarus-like too close to this world’s ultimate source of fire and light.
What the Fire Said
6" x 6" x 2" | copper piping, bronze alloy, hammered copper, photography, resin, plexiglass, acrylic, metal | 2021
What the Fire Said takes its name and inspiration from T.S. Elliot's poem "The Wasteland," and brings together found industrial materials with the conventional media commonly used in my sculptures, a subtle reference to the piece's origin as refuse reconfigured and reimagined as art. plays with materiality and temperature, bringing together glimmers of golden hues and darker, bronze tones to offer viewers an embodied experience of the elements in visual form – as well as juxtaposing the transparency of resin layers with cylindrical brass piping against the backing of a hammered copper sheet.
What the Fire Said belongs to a private collector, and is not available for purchase. Although the artist does not replicate previous work, commissions are an option, and can be discussed via email.
The Dying of the Light [Rage]
13" x "13 x 5.5" | mirrors, bronze alloy, hammered copper, photography, resin, paint, acrylic, metal, wood | 2022
The Dying of the Light [Rage] is unique, challenging, and difficult to classify, constituting both sculpture and mixed media, but—like life itself, simultaneously resisting any attempt at easy categorization. The Dying of the Light [Rage] plays with materiality and temperature, bringing together glimmers of golden hues and darker, bronze tones to offer viewers an embodied experience of the elements in visual form – as well as juxtaposing the transparency of resin layers, a mirrored backing, and painted wooden dowel rods with cylindrical brass and copper piping. The name of this piece quotes poet Dylan Thomas’ famous lines “do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Thomas’ meditation on death served as an inspiration for The Dying of the Light [Rage]’s media, with reflective surfaces and weighted, aged metal intended to interact in a sculptural memento mori for the contemporary era.
Fire on Ice
12" x "13 x 2" | mirrors, photography, resin, acrylic, metal, beam clamps | 2022
Fire on Ice conveys the paradoxical sensation of a fire’s warmth on a winter day, depicting the heat emanating from flames alongside the cooling influence of chilled mirror strips. Within the composition, contrasting forms and colors converge and retract in a whimsical interplay that simultaneously convey ice and fire: an elemental storm of contrast. As with most of my work, this art piece is unique, challenging, and difficult to classify, constituting both sculpture and mixed media, but—like life itself, simultaneously resisting any attempt at easy categorization. Fire on Ice plays with materiality and temperature, bringing together glimmers of golden hues and silver tones to offer viewers an embodied experience of the elements in visual form.
Moth and Flame
6" x" 6 x 2" | photography, metal, plexiglass, resin, acrylic, beam clamps | 2018
Moth and Flame belongs to a private collector, and is not available for purchase. Although the artist does not replicate previous work, commissions are an option, and can be discussed via email.
Firewater
6" x 6" x .25" | hammered copper, photography, resin, acrylic, plexiglass, metal | 2018
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Firewater #2
6" x 6" x .25" | hammered copper, photography, resin, acrylic, plexiglass, metal | 2018
Firewater #2 belongs to a private collector, and is not available for purchase. Although the artist does not replicate previous work, commissions are an option, and can be discussed via email.
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