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Acrobats
Birdbath
21 x 21 x 22.5"

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In looking at this interplay of forms the viewer comes to recognize a family doing handstands, splits, and a body press, all to lift a massive bath, a Herculean task in service to the weightless ones who arrive in a flit and depart refreshed.  As acrobats they make an elegant architecture of themselves, all done in a spirit of play and generosity.

But there is something else.  Oddly shaped block-like puzzle parts held together, each by the other, fitted and locked - an exotic plant twining upward bearing its fruit like ornament.  Both puzzle and growing plant are suggested by the same forms that suggest the acrobats.

In all turned to metaphor as I worked (three metaphors, one reality).  Community, all the while, is the thing I had wanted.

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  • Sculpture Gallery
    • Chicken Series, Garden Sculpture
    • Astronomy 1
    • Naming Small Birds
    • Water Bird
    • Cat & Olive Branch
    • Reading Isaiah
    • Acrobats
    • Dude Descending a Steer
    • Jonah
    • Fishers
    • Beyond the Horizon
    • Prodigy
    • Blacksmith
  • Fine Art Prints & Posters
  • Public Art Sculptures
  • About
  • Contact