March 1991. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 79 × 29 × 36 in (201 × 74 × 91 cm). Private collection Baltimore.
Link I continues my interest in combining rough, found stone with industrial metal, using the steel to physically and visually unite otherwise separate elements. The central connector was salvaged from a marine salvage yard near my Jersey City studio, part of an industrial waterfront landscape that became an important source of materials and imagery in my work.
The steel element is a pelican clip, named for the beak-like form of its clasp and originally used to connect large sections of marine chain. Its former function gives the sculpture an additional layer of meaning: an object whose previous “life” was literally about connecting and linking becomes the physical and conceptual link holding the sculpture together.
March 1991. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 79 × 29 × 36 in (201 × 74 × 91 cm). Private collection Baltimore.
Link I continues my interest in combining rough, found stone with industrial metal, using the steel to physically and visually unite otherwise separate elements. The central connector was salvaged from a marine salvage yard near my Jersey City studio, part of an industrial waterfront landscape that became an important source of materials and imagery in my work.
The steel element is a pelican clip, named for the beak-like form of its clasp and originally used to connect large sections of marine chain. Its former function gives the sculpture an additional layer of meaning: an object whose previous “life” was literally about connecting and linking becomes the physical and conceptual link holding the sculpture together.
