SCULPTURE
This work was created in two distinct parts. The first part was made in a
small sketch book on January 31, 1987, (which was only twenty-four days after
the "Self-Portrait" presented earlier). The second was completed in the
tumultuous year of 1996.
I cannot understand the significance of the objects in this work, their
relationship to each other, or even the allegory of the work as a whole,
but, I know in my soul that it represents death.
I can say that the sketch evolved on a day on which I woke from the following
dream:
I was a bumble bee. I flew into a candy store and wanted
to have a gum ball from the gum ball machine. The owner of
the store said, from behind the counter, "You don't belong
here. You're not from this planet, are you?".
I awoke, troubled by this possibility, and remained so throughout the day.
In the afternoon I went for a drive and made the notes in the sketch pad.
The sketch pad page is the actual page taped to the front of the work.
The complete work came together in a flash one evening in 1996. I found in
a cupboard in the laundry room a cutting board which I had purchased some
years earlier. It was to be used in some art thing I was planning, but never
completed. Then, on the wall of the laundry room, I saw an old coat hook, and
from it was hanging a distorted coat hanger just like the one drawn in
the sketch book years before. My role became simply to assemble the parts.
I can't begin to describe this work with words. It must be seen, and I gladly
extend to you the invitation to come by and see it.
This work is in my collection.
Your comments and questions are welcomed. E-mail me.