Bronze

Somehow, every time I start out on a bronze project, an animal comes out. Maybe, it goes back to, I don”t know where.  I’ve always been fascinated by animals, so maybe it goes back to the womb, or further.  Can the compulsion to image animals be in the genes?

The lost wax process takes such long effort, there are so many steps, it affords me time to contemplate so many aspects of the animal I am  – whatever I am doing – admiring, I suppose.  I learn so much about them, the animals.  I search out skeletal structure and the mechanics of their motions, what they eat and how they sleep.  In the end, sculpting isn’t about creating as much as it is about discovery.  Discovery of the different ways of being.  How can you not love an animal once you’ve discovered that.

Standing Jack

Jack was the second bronze piece I ever created.  His predecessor was a palm sized version, what sculptors would consider a maquette.

Tundra Repose

Standing River Otter

Fast Eddy

Fast Eddy came into my life when I agreed to foster a mom cat and her litter until the kittens developed their immune systems and could be placed for adoption (eight weeks).  We ended up naming the kittens after some of Paul Newman’s movie roles.

Fast Eddy and his brother Cassidy caught colds, as so many kittens do, and needed to stay with us a a little longer.  Seems like every ten minutes Eddy would come tearing into the studio and strike his “Chase Me” pose.  That boy made me laugh, just to share his joie de vivre.

Steel

What is it about steel that is so attractive even when it rusts?

I love building up a piece

Freeze Frame #1

Freeze Frame #2

StrikeSlip