Here is an assortment of three dimensional pieces that mostly hang on the wall
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This is a commissioned piece I did sometime back in the 1990's for a law office. It ended up on the outside of the building. I hope it brought some peace to the "litigants" . It is ceramic, made of high fire clay normally used for pottery. I like clay but hate to fire stuff. Too nerve wracking.
One year I decided to go into major production of small wall sculptures in the bas relief style. I made plaster molds and pressed clay slabs into them. They were fired and stained later. This was the first in the series. A nice chubby little Mermaid.
I wanted them to look like broken bits of stone or clay from some ancient civilization so I left the edges rough and made up a script that I thought looked good and proceeded to knock them out till I got tired of the whole thing and quit doing it one day.
When I was making the Indian Axes my wife, Judy told me she wanted a goddess figurine in the style of the Goddess of Wilendorf. Sounded fun so I made this little mold and turned out a dozen or so . She asked me to make a little shrine piece for it and then she decorated it with the shells, leather and so on.
This is a very large ceramic mosaic I made to honor donors at the Pratt Museum. The stone lamp was part of their logo at the time. I wanted to show the natural system of layering and branching connecting all the names at the bottom.
This was another of the press mold series I did in teracotta clay. Similar in design to the nude female series I did in oils, it uses the sensual lines of the young female torso to create a flowing design in low relief.
