March 1990. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 21 × 35 × 13 in (53 × 89 × 33 cm).
Over the years I have created many sculptures that feature openings or portals suggesting entrance or passages into spaces and places, both real and figurative. In Portal (ad augusta per ad augusta)” 1990, a small, narrow “portal” or archway is created by an arc of steel bookended by two pieces of found granite.
Occasionally I use Latin (the one foreign language I briefly studied) in my titles as a way to “bridge” the romance languages and expand the work’s communicative power. The sub title literally translates “to honors through difficulties” (augusta refers to holy places, angusta to narrow places) all suggesting that to achieve great results, we must pay the price, a maxim that was very much a part of my upbringing and perhaps a fit motto for dieters.
March 1990. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 21 × 35 × 13 in (53 × 89 × 33 cm).
Over the years I have created many sculptures that feature openings or portals suggesting entrance or passages into spaces and places, both real and figurative. In Portal (ad augusta per ad augusta)” 1990, a small, narrow “portal” or archway is created by an arc of steel bookended by two pieces of found granite.
Occasionally I use Latin (the one foreign language I briefly studied) in my titles as a way to “bridge” the romance languages and expand the work’s communicative power. The sub title literally translates “to honors through difficulties” (augusta refers to holy places, angusta to narrow places) all suggesting that to achieve great results, we must pay the price, a maxim that was very much a part of my upbringing and perhaps a fit motto for dieters.
