Composure II, Green, 2007. Bronze poured directly into sand, then composed with brass, copper, and stainless steel, every element smithed and assembled by hand. 13 × 46 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.
The face is made entirely of movement. The pour gives one second of it; the hours that follow continue that line with the torch, drawing element into element so the flow never breaks.
Molten bronze poured directly into sand. No mould, no model. The metal decided its own shape in the instant it landed, and was kept exactly as it fell.
The greens come from verdigris, and the warm browns from ferric nitrate, both worked onto hot metal so the chemistry runs the same path the pour did.
Bare bronze is left showing wherever the light should catch
The form casts shadows onto itself. It shifts with every angle, and the wall behind it never gets the same drawing twice.
Weight answered by weight. Each strand hung to balance the one opposite it, the way a pectoral has always been balanced across a chest.
The artist's thumbprint, cast in bronze, beside the name, the year, and the mark 1 of 1.
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