Composure III, Brown, 2007. Bronze poured directly into sand, then composed with brass, copper, and stainless steel, every element smithed and assembled by hand. 10 × 40 inches. 1 of 1. Available. Price on inquiry.
The shadow is 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.
From the extreme left the piece cascades down as one flow: forty inches of liquid metal, every inch of it worked. From here the relief is obvious, nose and lips projecting off the surface.
The profile of the centre, where the poured metal stacks forward in layers and the stainless drops swing free of all of it.
The torch does the sculpting, working the bronze while it is soft, drawing the nose up out of the mass and letting the face come with it. Nothing was carved and nothing was modelled in clay first.
Weight answered by weight. Each drop 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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