Composure I, Blue, 2007. Bronze poured directly into sand, with elements of brass, copper, and stainless steel. 18 × 36 inches. 1 of 1. Available. Price on inquiry.
The cast shadow: the work with everything taken away. No colour, no patina, no shine. Only the shape, and the shape cannot lie.
Seen from the side, the poured and assembled bronze shows its thickness. What reads flat on the wall is not flat: the metal pooled and rose where it landed.
Seen from the extreme left the piece narrows to an edge, and the face that reads full-on from the front turns to profile.
The face is made entirely of movement. One second of it comes from the pour. The rest is hours of torch work continuing the same line, element drawn into element so the flow never breaks.
Blue and verdigris patina emphasize the poured elements and bring the texture alive, gathering where the metal gathered and thinning where it thinned.
The colour was not applied over the form; it was grown along it.
Stainless steel worked under the torch. The colour comes from the heat, not from patina, and the highlights are polished in afterwards.
Each spike hangs free from its ring, hammered to shape one at a time, the way earrings are made.
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