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February 1988. Pink granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 40 × 28 × 8 in (102 × 71 × 20 cm). Private collection.
Vessel I was the first in an ongoing series exploring the vessel as both sculptural form and metaphor. The idea grew partly from my earlier work in ceramics and my longstanding interest in containers. Here, the steel “vessel” was cut from a found section of pinched steel tube or pipe and balanced on a roughly shaped stone, giving an industrial fragment a new, more associative identity.
The painted stone reflects my experiments with color in pastel drawings at the time, when I was beginning to move beyond the strict “truth to materials” approach of my earlier work. Color, found form, and the vessel introduced a more expressive vocabulary that would become increasingly important in later series concerned with passage, journey, and personal navigation.
February 1988. Pink granite, painted steel. Dimensions: 40 × 28 × 8 in (102 × 71 × 20 cm). Private collection.
Vessel I was the first in an ongoing series exploring the vessel as both sculptural form and metaphor. The idea grew partly from my earlier work in ceramics and my longstanding interest in containers. Here, the steel “vessel” was cut from a found section of pinched steel tube or pipe and balanced on a roughly shaped stone, giving an industrial fragment a new, more associative identity.
The painted stone reflects my experiments with color in pastel drawings at the time, when I was beginning to move beyond the strict “truth to materials” approach of my earlier work. Color, found form, and the vessel introduced a more expressive vocabulary that would become increasingly important in later series concerned with passage, journey, and personal navigation.