March 1985. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 38 × 50 × 16 in (97 × 127 × 41 cm). Private Collection - destroyed
From Melancholy to Mystery represents another relatively rare for the period use of the figure in my sculpture. The long, diagonally poised granite form, supported by a wheel-like steel element, suggests a body or figure caught in motion. The prominently placed forged-steel bars and loops are both structural and visual, deliberately revealing how the sculpture is held together—a continuation of my long-standing interest in making the act of assembly part of the work itself.
The title is a nod to Giorgio de Chirico’s 1914 painting Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, with its enigmatic atmosphere and small figure moving with a hoop. My sculpture takes that reference in a more playful direction: the circular steel form suggests a wheel and gives the massive stone an improbable, freewheeling energy. Weight and gravity remain present, but here they are countered by movement, humor, and a sense that the sculpture might somehow roll away.
March 1985. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 38 × 50 × 16 in (97 × 127 × 41 cm). Private Collection - destroyed
From Melancholy to Mystery represents another relatively rare for the period use of the figure in my sculpture. The long, diagonally poised granite form, supported by a wheel-like steel element, suggests a body or figure caught in motion. The prominently placed forged-steel bars and loops are both structural and visual, deliberately revealing how the sculpture is held together—a continuation of my long-standing interest in making the act of assembly part of the work itself.
The title is a nod to Giorgio de Chirico’s 1914 painting Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, with its enigmatic atmosphere and small figure moving with a hoop. My sculpture takes that reference in a more playful direction: the circular steel form suggests a wheel and gives the massive stone an improbable, freewheeling energy. Weight and gravity remain present, but here they are countered by movement, humor, and a sense that the sculpture might somehow roll away.
