These are samples of pieces I have finished in the past two years. I'm pleased with the recently finished hanging piece titled "Wet Cocoon", it's the 3rd and I think final piece in the , Water Wars series. (at least ones using old garden hoses)
Next group of images. I had been thinking of stacking the toilets bowl for awhile, as I kicked the idea around there was something about the Burgher of Calais that kept pushing into my consciousness. I stilled don’t know the connection but trust in my intuition, so will look into those thoughts as time goes on. I did a few rough sketches and started to keep my eyes open for discarded white toilet.
Then I was asked to be part of a show at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center in Portsmouth, VA. The show was called Vanishing Beauty on the theme of sea level rise and mountain top removal. I felt that the tower could fold into that theme. The curator and I discussed it and she like the concept and the elegant form the bowls stacked one on top of another created. (I sent her images of 3 bowls stack up to give her an idea of how the final piece would look).
I'd like to have the bowl translated into cast iron, so the bowl are more durable and can be cantilevered in ways that might elude more to the Burghers of Calais. 2 of the images are of the "Tidal Flush" re-installed near my studio.
I've also included four images from the piece call "The Basic Shapes of Nature", made from a large tree trunk and corks and 2 smaller studies that I've finished recently.

A variety of new or rework pieces curated for the Baker Artist Winner show at BMA in 2015.

Looking for answers in the woods.

I've been collecting old keys for years. I believe that they hold onto a kind of history. When I went through a long period of being ill I struggled with how to keep working. I was forced to work small and create pieces where many small steps could eventually add up to something more.

These are pieces I did right after 9/11 and in the following year or so.

There are four works in this group that I think of as the four emotional seasons of grappling with the events of 9/11 and all its ramifications to our world.

Why don't I throw much away? There many layers to this answer. I see the value in many things we just discard in todays in western societies. It just has always seemed natural that instead of throwing something out, meaning putting it into the garbage, where it will be trucked to some landfill to be buried into the ground (this is the out of sight out of mind game we play), I would rather hold onto things so someone else might use it, or some part of it. At least it might be re-cycled in some fashion or another, or if it can't be used for anything, often it will still have some scrap value. Is that not a best use of these raw materials? Is this not good for the planet?
In this section some of the pieces are made from old copper wire. I share with you the evolution of hundreds of pieces of copper wire collected over many years. When I started one sculpture I had no real idea except to create a sphere from all my old wire. A project like that happens over many years. I start and stop many times, but it is ongoing. Maybe I'm a turtle in some dimension, but slowly over time and many thoughts the pieces comes to life.
Other small studies come different ideas, but each one has its story of its origins

Creating forms through wrapping and binding.

Many projects using old and re-cycled copper pipe and other types of collected used copper things.

Water Wars Project: Physical forms as a dialogue. We can't live without fresh water.

The 3 human-sized cairn or egg forms "Synergy", "Water Wars #2", and "The Golden Egg"
are the most recent works in this series. They are made to stand alone, but I see them as some kind of trinity. I see them like the three blind mice and the three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil, and the three wise men all wrapped up into one.

I've also included a few pieces from 20 years ago where I first wrestled with water and our connections to it.

A group of smaller work done over the last few years. Each piece has its own story of genesis. Sometimes they are working sketches for larger ideas, but often they are a way for me to warm up again, a way to start the fires of creativity flowing.