January 2003. Bronze. Dimensions: 13.5 × 22 × 6 in (34 × 56 × 15 cm).
Private collection - Pittsburgh, PA
Flying Anvil, Empty Table grew out of a turbulent period in my life when two parts of my world seemed to be moving in opposite directions. My studio practice and career were “flying high,” represented by the anvil rising at the end of the sweeping arc, while circumstances at home—the “empty table”—were far less settled. The work transforms that personal tension into a precarious balance between ascent and absence, optimism and uncertainty. As in much of my sculpture, the anvil functions both as a familiar tool of making and as metaphor, allowing a specific autobiographical moment to open onto the more universal experience of trying to hold conflicting parts of one’s life in balance.
January 2003. Bronze. Dimensions: 13.5 × 22 × 6 in (34 × 56 × 15 cm).
Private collection - Pittsburgh, PA
Flying Anvil, Empty Table grew out of a turbulent period in my life when two parts of my world seemed to be moving in opposite directions. My studio practice and career were “flying high,” represented by the anvil rising at the end of the sweeping arc, while circumstances at home—the “empty table”—were far less settled. The work transforms that personal tension into a precarious balance between ascent and absence, optimism and uncertainty. As in much of my sculpture, the anvil functions both as a familiar tool of making and as metaphor, allowing a specific autobiographical moment to open onto the more universal experience of trying to hold conflicting parts of one’s life in balance.
