old fire hose, 21" x 24" x 4" One old fire hose that is wrapped in such a way that it represents the three basic shapes in nature.

old fire hose, 21" x 24" x 4" One old fire hose that is wrapped in such a way that it represents the three basic shapes in nature.

wood & copper wire, 3" x 2" x 2" Copper wire wrapped tightly around a short cedar limb, which was then soaked and beaten repeatedly, smashing and breaking the fibers of wood. How does one capture the weight of a century?

wood & copper wire, 12"x 12"x 4" Is the copper wire wedge joining or holding the spilt Y apart or together? What holds us apart or together?

wood & copper, 24"x6"x6" This is made from a piece of locust wood that one evening in a moment of anger I slammed against an old log many times. I did this so I didn't direct my anger at those I love. A few days later I happened to look at this piece of wood and saw how my beating of the wood had split it into 4 quarters. There was some thing in this that spoke to me. After pondering on this piece of wood for a few days I decided to transform what was started in a moment of anger into something of beauty. First, from heavy copper wire I made 2 tightly fitted rings to keep the top of wood from splitting any further. I then meticulously crammed and jammed copper wire into the cracks forcing the wood apart. As I continued down I forced more and more wire into the split apart spaces until I reach the bottom where this 2" limb had now spread out to 6". To complete the piece I manipulated the wire at the base into a round pregnant type form that only touched the ground in the middle of of what now became the 4 wooden feet.

vines & steel wire, 5' x 5' x 6' I saw old wire cages stacked as I drove by a farm. I then took my old tomato cages and made this triangular stack with the vision of interweaving the wild fox grapevines to create this relationship. I was pulling them from the tree in the area that was to become my home. From a distance the sphere seemed to rotate and hover.

vines & wood, 6' x 6' x 6' This was a piece that was created while I was clearing my land to build my home. It is dealing with the thought of containing our vital energies and looking at the pressures to conform.

tree & vines 40' x 5' x 5' This is a piece I created after discovering a 19th century road on my property. These vine wrappings came about while I was a young man clearing my land and owning my artistry. I cleared this old road way over the course of a year, but left one tree in the middle of it. Then I wrapped and wove this 5' ball of vines through and around the crotch of the tree. I now had a road, but there was an impasse meaning it couldn't be used after all that work. This helped me to take a closer look at other places in my own life where I had created my own personal impasses.

wood & copper, 24" x 24" x 18" This sculpture was done at the turn of the century. It is 2,000 feet of copper wire tightly wrapped around a cross section from an old locust tree. I then made a locust wood spike and beat it through the center of the wire and the hollow part of the cross section of the old locust tree. I like the tension between the copper wire and wood, the tension between the 20th & 21st centuries.

string 12" x 8" x 8" This is all the string that was being thrown away from one of the 1st day projects in a 3-D class I taught. I untangled and tied all the string pieces together. Then I wound them around a small armature until they slowly started to transform into this egg type form.