September 1988. Granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 36 × 38 × 15 in (91 × 97 × 38 cm).
Private collection - Santa Fe
East River Go-Round II continues the formal and structural ideas of East River Go-Round I, but opens the composition into a taller, more vertical arrangement. Two contrasting granite forms are connected by a thin steel arc, with the larger stone poised dramatically on a single point. Gravity, balance, and visible assembly remain central, while the open circular form creates a strong sense of movement between the two stones and through the negative space they define.
As with the first work, the title refers to the East Branch, or East River, of the Sacandaga River that runs through my studio property in Wells, New York. The river adds ideas of flow and continuity to the Go-Round theme of circular movement and the repetitive nature of working in a series. Each sculpture becomes another passage through the same evolving idea, anticipating the circle, stone, repetition, and persistence that would become central to my later Sisyphean Circles.
September 1988. Granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 36 × 38 × 15 in (91 × 97 × 38 cm).
Private collection - Santa Fe
East River Go-Round II continues the formal and structural ideas of East River Go-Round I, but opens the composition into a taller, more vertical arrangement. Two contrasting granite forms are connected by a thin steel arc, with the larger stone poised dramatically on a single point. Gravity, balance, and visible assembly remain central, while the open circular form creates a strong sense of movement between the two stones and through the negative space they define.
As with the first work, the title refers to the East Branch, or East River, of the Sacandaga River that runs through my studio property in Wells, New York. The river adds ideas of flow and continuity to the Go-Round theme of circular movement and the repetitive nature of working in a series. Each sculpture becomes another passage through the same evolving idea, anticipating the circle, stone, repetition, and persistence that would become central to my later Sisyphean Circles.
