OTHER WORKS

Named for the era in which the horse first came into being, these, and all of my figurative work, are based on archetypal and mythological sources. They are a personal interpretation and synthesis of what I consider to be some of the greatest art the world has ever produced, which includes pre-historic cave paintings, Tang Dynasty horses, African Boli figures, Minoan art, and Greek and Roman mythology as depicted in European painting and sculpture.

Wooden sculptures carved from tree trunks.

Both the bronze and solid clear urethane versions of this piece were cast from a discarded tire from a front-end-loader serving a waste transfer station in Brooklyn, NY. Instead of air, the tire was injected with an oily, un-congealed neoprene rubber, thus making the punctures that inevitably occur on that rough terrain inconsequential. The original tire, cut open as it was, in an effort to reclaim the rim, was one of the most raw, nasty and defiled objects that I ever seen. While the tread was hard and worn, the interior was soft and gooey. Its’ obvious muscularity was counterbalanced by an unusual vulnerability, and in this way for me, became a metaphor for us all.

Push-Ups in Hell was inspired by a news story I read in which authorities at Louisana's Angola State Penitentiary had taken away the prisoner's weight lifting equipment. In an act of resourcefulness and defiance, the inmates resorted to using each other as weights. This is a highly metaphorical image which speaks to issues of societal class struggle, the individual human condition and the purgatorial consequences in death of a life not rightly lived.