Silver Lining With Dangling Modifier / 2009

  I like the play on words that are in a number of my titles. “Silver Lining With A Dangling Modifier” is an example of that. A “silver lining” always the promise of better things to come. A “dangling modifier” is part of language sentence structure. For this sculpture the use of both are merged to create a different meaning....

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Corner Slice / 2000

  The beauty of wood has always attracted me. In 1971 I saw the black walnut trees that used to border the fruit orchards in Santa Clara valley being torn out, piled up and burned, to clear the land for buildings. I got a chainsaw and raided the piles of tree stumps and cut as much wood as I could save before the stumps were burned. The walnut slab in “Corner...

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Red States, Blue States, Both a Promise a Silver Lining / 2006

  Red States Blue States combines a number of the elements I like. Using torn cardboard exposing the corrugation and using colored cardboard, with the addition of silver lined heavy paper cans and particle board I-beams to make a statement about politics. The colors come from packaging we all see and think nothing about. Sounds like politics. The corrugated interior...

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Red-States,-Blue-States,-Both-a-Promise-a-Silver-Lining / 2006

Dimensions: 42 x 18 x 21 in. $2,200.00

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