VESSELALIA is a project of interactive generative music sculptures who improvise music and light with each other and with human performers as well as listener-observers. The piece will be presented as a set of 16 sculptures. Vesselalia is a portmaneau…
These three chaps are made of steel and brass. I thought I was building a city, but apparently ended up with characters. Or maybe they are vehicles. Travel across this great land! Commission, private collection
Steel, radio tubes, paint
This piece is a concatenation of two ideas—one, a narrative sculpture, a brief story in steel, and two, a conduit from the earth to the sky. I think the big idea that we miss as humans is that we think…
Omnuculars are from a morning vision of retro circus devices from the future—that is, objects from the future, sent to our past and then discovered in the present.
The Tendrillophone is a small scale time machine. My intention was to use it for forward/backward time travel, but apparently loads of problems with that. Also, the device is too small for myself and most (all?) other humans. That’s frustrating.…
Sculpture Steel, brass tuba parts This tuba is a dead instrument. Once played by aspiring high schoolers who dreamed of a life in Marching Band, they slowly graduated and realized the instrument would never lead to love or sex, only…
Wow! I’ve been thinking about this one for a while and now it’s coming together. Sometimes it just takes starting to make something to start making something. This sculpture will be an emotional range device requiring both attention and selfishness.…
This is one of those posts that don’t really explain very well what’s going on. The idea of the Euphio Device is taken from a Vonnegut short story, “The Euphio Question,” which is sort of a warning about the…
I’m pleased to let you know that I received a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. I will be welding up these Olos and placing them on Winkler’s Creek Road. Take a drive by and see them. The granting organizations…