2013.3 Multiples

Multiples

Since 2013, I've gone in a new, more abstract direction. It started with Rocky Lewycky's suggestion that we all make plaster molds for press molding. Like everything else, it's gotten out of hand. Making large plaster molds requires large amounts of plaster, and, when my engineering is lacking, means that I have to clean up massive plaster spills on the garage floor. Each of these sculptures begins by press molding many (between a dozen and twenty seven) of the same geometric forms out of clay. The pieces are bisqued, and then finished with a mix of oxides (because they cover the clay with color and don't stick to the kiln) and glaze. They range in size from the smallest form with a maximum dimension of 4 1/2", to the largest at nearly two feet. The purpose of these pieces is to make sculptures that I can change, individually, most of the pieces have biological references and curves, but when combined, the same pieces might make a wave, a new age swirl, a baroque paisley, a rigid geometric, a Moroccan village, a dragon, a leaf, or a pinwheel. For me, the concept of changeable sculpture once again goes back to Steve Wainwright's permission. In my mind, the best part of these sculptures is that after living with the sculpture for some time, I will come up with a new arrangement that had never occurred to me, in some ways, it means the sculpture is never finished,