February 1995. Alum, granite, steel. Dimensions: 128 × 50 × 36 in (325 × 127 × 91 cm).
Public collection - Millersville’ University, PA.
Chalice I is the first work in my Chalice Series and grows from my longstanding interest in vessels and containers as sculptural forms and metaphors. My early background as a potter made the vessel part of my visual vocabulary, while its broader associations—with passage, the individual, or humanity moving through life—gave it metaphorical possibilities. Here, a large section of an aeronautical fuel tank is combined with granite and steel to create an exaggerated, upward-reaching chalice.
At more than ten feet high, the familiar idea of a cup or container is transformed through scale, industrial materials, and precarious balance. The work becomes a kind of “cup of life”—a vessel suggesting containment, passage, aspiration, and the human experience.
February 1995. Alum, granite, steel. Dimensions: 128 × 50 × 36 in (325 × 127 × 91 cm).
Public collection - Millersville’ University, PA.
Chalice I is the first work in my Chalice Series and grows from my longstanding interest in vessels and containers as sculptural forms and metaphors. My early background as a potter made the vessel part of my visual vocabulary, while its broader associations—with passage, the individual, or humanity moving through life—gave it metaphorical possibilities. Here, a large section of an aeronautical fuel tank is combined with granite and steel to create an exaggerated, upward-reaching chalice.
At more than ten feet high, the familiar idea of a cup or container is transformed through scale, industrial materials, and precarious balance. The work becomes a kind of “cup of life”—a vessel suggesting containment, passage, aspiration, and the human experience.
