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February 1996. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 53 × 24 × 10 in (135 × 61 × 25 cm).
Private collection.
High Rider - Fully Freighted was created for a benefit auction for the John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, and its imagery grew directly from that context. Rising from the tilted vessel, the delicate bronze ladder reaches upward, countering the sculpture’s weight and precariousness with a gesture of ascent. For me, it suggests hope, positive energy, and the possibility of moving beyond difficult circumstances—the support and optimism that a hospital and its dedicated staff can offer children and their families.
The sculpture draws on the vessel as a recurring metaphor in my work for passage and journey. Here, a symbolically and emotionally freighted vessel careens precariously atop granite and industrial steel, suggesting the uncertainty and imbalance faced by very sick children and their families.
February 1996. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 53 × 24 × 10 in (135 × 61 × 25 cm).
Private collection.
High Rider - Fully Freighted was created for a benefit auction for the John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, and its imagery grew directly from that context. Rising from the tilted vessel, the delicate bronze ladder reaches upward, countering the sculpture’s weight and precariousness with a gesture of ascent. For me, it suggests hope, positive energy, and the possibility of moving beyond difficult circumstances—the support and optimism that a hospital and its dedicated staff can offer children and their families.
The sculpture draws on the vessel as a recurring metaphor in my work for passage and journey. Here, a symbolically and emotionally freighted vessel careens precariously atop granite and industrial steel, suggesting the uncertainty and imbalance faced by very sick children and their families.