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October 1989. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 48 × 48 × 18 in (122 × 122 × 46 cm). Private collection - Washington, DC. Culter (Keel), 1989
Culter (Keel) brings together my interest in tools and implements with the vessel and ideas of navigation that were becoming increasingly important in my work. Culter, from the Latin for a knife or cutting instrument, is the root of “coulter,” the blade that cuts the earth ahead of a plow. Here the sweeping steel form combines with the rough granite to suggest both an implement and the keel of a vessel.
The dual reference extends the sculpture toward what I think of as personal navigation—the choices and instruments we use to establish direction and chart a course through life. Rather than illustrating a particular tool or boat, the work uses these associations as metaphors for movement, decision-making, and the ongoing process of finding one’s way.
October 1989. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 48 × 48 × 18 in (122 × 122 × 46 cm). Private collection - Washington, DC. Culter (Keel), 1989
Culter (Keel) brings together my interest in tools and implements with the vessel and ideas of navigation that were becoming increasingly important in my work. Culter, from the Latin for a knife or cutting instrument, is the root of “coulter,” the blade that cuts the earth ahead of a plow. Here the sweeping steel form combines with the rough granite to suggest both an implement and the keel of a vessel.
The dual reference extends the sculpture toward what I think of as personal navigation—the choices and instruments we use to establish direction and chart a course through life. Rather than illustrating a particular tool or boat, the work uses these associations as metaphors for movement, decision-making, and the ongoing process of finding one’s way.