For sometime now I have been thinking about how I could share more of my art work on a regular basis with you, especially those who cannot make it to my shows or would like to know more about work you’ve seen only briefly in the past. In these time of constant demands on our time and attention I am hoping that a shorter digital access to my work might interest you. So inspired by a poet friend of mine in San Diego who sends out a poem a week, I have decided to feature one sculpture of mine each month and provide as much background information on it as I can. Hopefully you will find something to like here and perhaps even to inspire you about our futures together on this planet in these times of COVID shutdown and serious lack of sane leadership.
This will be the first issue of the Sculpture of the month program. Let me know if you have pieces you have seen in the past or on my website you would like me to feature in the future. If you have reactions about the Sculpture of the Month please share them with me.
Life Breathing Into Itself
I picked this piece because it has the sort of positivity we need right now.Its history also shows how typically my insights with these worksoccur over decades not years.The sketch for this work was completed in March 2003 in an Encinitas, CA cafe while my wife was attending a yoga workshop. As wilth many of my sketches I did not get around to selecting it for a clay-relief until 2010. It remained unnamed for a several years after its creation. In 2014 I moved from San Diego to Santa Cruz and began participating in their Open Studios program in the fall of 2017. The piece was first shown at my first Santa Cruz Open Studios in the fall of that year, seven years later when its name also emerged from one of the attendants, Beverly DesChaux, who had a strong relationship to the piece. She first suggested the name of Psyche Breathes Life connected to the Greek myth dabout eternal love; but, later changed it to Life Breathing Into Itself which rang truer to me since there is a wind or breath that seems to flow through this piece perking up the rabbits ear, ruffling the ocean waters, and carryihg the sacred messenger on her task of spreading the eternal love of Psyche and Eros. I hope it inspries your own inspiration from what you love.
