Sculptures

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Queen Annes Lace Pod

Chadd’s Ford, PA

The Queen Anne’s Lace Pod is a commission for the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadd’s Ford, PA. It is a temporary installation along the Harvy Run Trail.

Built using materials all collected on site, this installation’s structure mimics a Queen Anne’s Lace flower as it becomes a seed head. The seed head is inverted, with the stem ascending into the sky and the visitor able to enter the seed head’s crown below.

Queen Anne’s Lace grow wild throughout this meadow and their presence on the land is one of the reasons for this sculpture’s form. It is important to me that my work reflects the place it is coming from, not only in the materials, but in the form those materials take. I also chose the Queen Anne’s Lace because it reflects the human history of the Brandywine River Museum of Art. When I was first introduced to this museum and land conservancy, it was because Frolic, one of the founders, had seen a sculpture of mine in my grandmother’s backyard. We met and talked about a project bringing my work to the trails, but his death later that year put this project on hold. Years later, ss I developed the plan for this installation, I was reminded of Frolic’s painting “August”. A print of this beautiful work hung in my childhood home, and I have always loved it. The work is of a hillside rising up to the center of the painting. A road climbs with it and along it grows a field of Queen Anne’s Lace. Thus the Queen Anne’s Lace is both an homage to Frolic and his work and a way to connect this piece to the landscape it resides in.

Ultimately this piece is about connection. Both honoring Frolic’s connection and place-based activism to this land, and inviting more connection to this place from people who come to visit the Pod. The Pod is a place to sit and be in the meadow, observe the subtleties of this landscape and get to know its inhabitants. A place that asks us to look more closely at the beauty of plant’s architecture and their ingenious designs.

I believe that our ability to destroy and ignore the world around us is made more difficult when we feel connected to that world. Capitalism has long asked us to divorce ourselves from the natural world and view trees and animals as resources to be used. This allows us to clear cut a forest and create factory farms, because these are not beings but resources devoid of consciousness. The environmental destruction that comes from the psychic and geographic distance of global capitalism is catching up to us and I hope that this small invitation towards intimacy with the other than human world will help us heal this divide.

Clay Burl 2

Found wood, screws, clay

Floyd, VA

Clay Burl 1

Found wood, screws, clay

Floyd, VA

Leap

Found wood, screws, clay

Floyd, VA

Hung

Found wood screws and clay

Empathy

Found wood and screws

Anela

Found Wood and Screws

Private Collection

Antler Queen

Found Wood and Screws

Slide

Found Wood and Screws

Stalk

Found Wood and Screws

Elektra

Found Wood and Screws

Private Collection

Tall Man

Found Wood and Screws

Diva

Found wood and screws

Bruce

Found wood and screws