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My
assemblage sculpture is a unique
and often whimsical mixed-media combination of discarded (and thus
"recycled") stainless-steel
medical instruments and other objects (e.g. hundreds of keys for
sculptures such as "The Double Helix" or "The
Key to Life"), steel elements for support and structure welded
together, and leaded stained glass. The stained glass used is either
colored transparent or opaque art glass, painted glass or stained by
kiln-firing or baking-on. Often stained-glass elements or panels are
soldered on top of each other or otherwise arranged three-dimensionally in
Rube Goldberg-esque variations.
Most of my sculptures have medical themes, and because stainless steel and
stained glass are inorganic (dead) materials, whereas the topic of the
sculpture deals with life, I use tree segments as pedestals where the tree
segment symbolizes life, power strength and continuity. Other
sculptures deal with social and philosophical issues such as world hunger,
racism, political and ideological oppression, in addition to cosmological
themes such as "The Big Bang" or "Creation-Evolution".
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"Victory"
Mixed Media, 98 x 57 x 30.75 cm |
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"Christ the Healer"
Mixed Media, 40.7 x 28 x 23 cm |
"Convalescence"
Mixed Media, 75 x
21.5 x 27 cm |
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"Dental Care"
Mixed Media,
33.5 x 22.5 x 21 cm |
"Book Burning"
Mixed Media,
53.5 x 33 x 35.5 cm |
"September 11"
Mixed Media,
44 x 28.5 x 25.5 cm |
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