One World

2004. Cast aluminum. 13" diameter x 3/4" thickness. Sold! But you can always commission a similar piece.

This is my second piece of public art. It's also the result of the first aluminum casting in which I played an important role. I don't like the inherently dirty nature of metal (you don't want to know), but I really enjoy the range of textures it can provide. I also like its durability (this piece will probably last several thousand years... unless somebody decides to melt it down) and how it merges. Sometimes clay can be merged... pre-firing. Wood won't come together without something else (wood is anti-social). Of the media I work with, only acrylic paint and metal display a good fellowship as regards bonding similar particles to similar particles. Metal becomes one piece, reincarnated from whatever function it used to serve, and there is such a strength and reassurance to that. Imagine being an engine block on Monday, a piece of garbage on Tuesday, a hot mama on Wednesday, and a piece of art hanging on someone's wall by Friday afternoon.