Composure IV, Gold, 2007. Bronze poured directly into sand, then composed with brass, copper and stainless steel, every element smithed and assembled by hand. 6½ × 33 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.
No patina here. Every metal is polished back to itself, so the surface carries light instead of colour, and every ridge left by the pour shows.
Stainless steel runs at a different temperature from everything else here. It is melted and welded rather than soldered, each element fused directly into the piece.
The lower descent: a copper disc hung from a forged bar, with three small drops swinging free beneath it.
The copper disc is the softest metal in the piece, hammered thin and left to hold its own dull rose against the polished bronze above it.
The artist's thumbprint, cast in bronze, beside the name, the year, and the mark 1 of 1.