January 1991. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 48 × 65 × 24 in (122 × 165 × 61 cm). Piece was dissembled and parts were used for new works.
Ancora continues my interest in combining rough, found stone with industrial steel and using weight and balance to animate otherwise earthbound materials. As in many of my works, the title is Latin—ancora means “anchor”—and the sculpture’s overall form suggests a massive stone anchor with its attached chain. My Jersey City studio and the nearby marine salvage yards provided both materials and imagery that entered my work during this period.
The chain links are welded together, creating the illusion that they float or drift through water or air. I had used this “trick” on a smaller scale in earlier works and returned to it on a much larger scale in Tether (Boy’s Toys) (1995), inspired in part by childhood memories of rural mailboxes seemingly held magically aloft on welded chains.
The chain was later used in Statio 2005 (T-05-21).
January 1991. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 48 × 65 × 24 in (122 × 165 × 61 cm). Piece was dissembled and parts were used for new works.
Ancora continues my interest in combining rough, found stone with industrial steel and using weight and balance to animate otherwise earthbound materials. As in many of my works, the title is Latin—ancora means “anchor”—and the sculpture’s overall form suggests a massive stone anchor with its attached chain. My Jersey City studio and the nearby marine salvage yards provided both materials and imagery that entered my work during this period.
The chain links are welded together, creating the illusion that they float or drift through water or air. I had used this “trick” on a smaller scale in earlier works and returned to it on a much larger scale in Tether (Boy’s Toys) (1995), inspired in part by childhood memories of rural mailboxes seemingly held magically aloft on welded chains.
The chain was later used in Statio 2005 (T-05-21).
