April 1988. Black marble, steel. Dimensions: 13 × 16 × 14 in (33 × 41 × 36 cm). Private Collection.
Passages III continues my exploration of the vessel as an expressive metaphor for passage, journey, and the self—an image that grew partly from my attraction to the boat form for both its beauty and functionality, and from the vessel’s long history as a carrier through physical and metaphorical space. Here, the massive black marble form becomes a kind of landscape through which the vessels move, contrasting the permanence and weight of stone with the suggestion of travel and transition.
The two vessels occupy very different moments in that journey: one is caught in mid-descent, poised against the stone as if its passage is still underway, while the other has come to rest below, overturned and bottom-side up. Their contrasting positions introduce uncertainty into the idea of passage—the journey may involve movement, imbalance, arrival, or disorientation—while leaving the ultimate destination unresolved.
April 1988. Black marble, steel. Dimensions: 13 × 16 × 14 in (33 × 41 × 36 cm). Private Collection.
Passages III continues my exploration of the vessel as an expressive metaphor for passage, journey, and the self—an image that grew partly from my attraction to the boat form for both its beauty and functionality, and from the vessel’s long history as a carrier through physical and metaphorical space. Here, the massive black marble form becomes a kind of landscape through which the vessels move, contrasting the permanence and weight of stone with the suggestion of travel and transition.
The two vessels occupy very different moments in that journey: one is caught in mid-descent, poised against the stone as if its passage is still underway, while the other has come to rest below, overturned and bottom-side up. Their contrasting positions introduce uncertainty into the idea of passage—the journey may involve movement, imbalance, arrival, or disorientation—while leaving the ultimate destination unresolved.
