Art Works

ART WORKS

Sculpture. 1996. Assemblage. 10"x18".

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 awoke 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.

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