An undersea form, tall and thin, with a swirl of seaweed twisting around it from the bottom to the top. Color is intense in blues, greens ,and pinks. It is just under 6 ft tall, it is made out of clay and the seaweed is made from welded steel rod. It sits on a dark colored welded steel square base, 

As with other works, I am looking at a range of relationships. Relationships of form and color. Relationships of humans; how they interact, "interdepend" or not. 

I look at systems in nature and compare them to how humans interact. It is all especially relevant now in our current socio-political era.

This work started out as a prop for a film I made about an artist's life (attached further below - called, ironically,  "Excellence").  The star of the film, actor, Marlena Neal, worked on the piece as part of the scene we were shooting so I am giving her some of the credit. 

Afterwards I worked on it further adding the welded steel garland of seaweed and the ceramic creatures, etc.

It is called "Little Cosmos" because the little sea creatures, seaweed, and their larger host, sustains each other.

Clay, 2024, 3.5 ft x 16in diameter , A statuesque surreal, saline-like,  clay sculpture about 4 ft tall , painted in greens ,blues and pinks. The top is a suggestive flower with a gold stamen and pink gold petals.

Upon closer examination one sees a certain wear and tear, part of a tentacle is missing. The grasping, mouthlike, flower forms , seem somewhat spent. Her name is Queen and she has earned that title from a lifetime of living. There is also growth indicating a regeneration.

Estrella the Crone, 2022 Sculpture 3.5 ft tall x 6 ft wide x 2 ft deep, ceramic, welded steel and acrylic This is a ball with starfish- like or octopus - like arms all around it . one of its arms has jettisoned from its body . Thin steel loops are like blood vessels still attached to the arm and the body. The work is in shades of teal, blues and greens with highlights in hot pink and gold.

tThis is a detail of Estrella the Crone . It shows the bottom third of the work, a starfish- octopus - like sea creature walking along the bottom of the ocean. It is paint in blues greens and yellows. It has a hot pink , rope like, sea animal wrapped around its legs. It is not clear if it is helping or restraining Estrella's movement.

The viewer is encouraged to bring their own interpretations to the work.

Porcelain and Iron, Porcelain, iron, steel, oxides and natural oxidation ( ie rust), 14in x 10in x 7", 2007

This sculpture  is made from porcelain clay and welded steel. It is about 14 in tall by 7" x 10 in . At top is a blue pod with white flowering forms bursting forth from it. These are made with porcelain. Porcelain is a very fine grade of clay and was used in the past for porcelain dinnerware. There is a curving piece ofi still rod that looks like it could be a plant form. It is attached to a piece of angle iron that has been squashed. It has been allowed to rust while the porcelain is white and blue. I was interested in these two man made materials, made for completely different purposes( teacups for the middle and upper classes of yore and the iron/ steel to undergird [literally] modern civilization).  Yet they come together very well as an undersea discovery.

Fingerpede, cast bronze from wax original, patina, 5 in x 10 in x 4 in , 2000

Fingerpede is expressly to call to mind the movement of a centipede. It is about 5 inches tall and 10 inches wide and 4 inches deep. It is cast in bronze directly from a wax original. I was experimenting with pushing my fingers into clay  and then pouring melted wax into it So the top half is a whole bunch of human fingers while its bottom half is a series of conical pointed elements ( from pushing a pen into clay repeatedly  and then pouring melted wax into the holes.. 

It was cast solid . The norm would be to cast it in two halves and then weld it together creating a hollow form. I made this choice because I was aware that, like clay and glass, it would be poured at a very high temperature, and then cooled so that the exterior would cool first , shrinking as it cooled, while the center would still be molten hot and swollen.  This caused warping and cracking, just as I had expected. I also preferred the weight of it as this solid piece of metal.

Tree of Life, welded steel, stoneware clay, glaze and enamel, 25 ft x 6 ft x 8 ft, 1997

Tree of Life is a tree- like 25 ft welded steel sculpture. The trunk looks like an oil derrick with a multi colored leaf ball on top ( I was thinking of the Firebird Ballet) . Embedded in this treetop is a large rose colored clay pod. The colors are pinks and greens.  This work was made for the Artscape Festival and it was placed in front of the Lyric Theatre for a year. Other tall trees were there so it seemed fitting to have a slightly different one. Again it was made out of metal and the bottom two thirds called to mind oil derricks but was topped by a curvilinear tree top. There was a stoneware ceramic pod or bud embedded in the "leaves" .

Baltimore City workers delivered the work and a number of us got into a lift to insert the top that had been raised by a crane. When we took the work down a year later there was an actual bird's nest in it. 

Tree of Life, Detail, welded steel with clay stoneware, glaze and enamel. 1997. 

Tree of Life ( Detail) , welded steel, stoneware clay, glaze and enamel, 25 ft x 6 ft x 8 ft, 1997

Tree of Life is a tree- like 25 ft welded steel sculpture. The trunk looks like an oil derrick with a multi colored leaf ball on top ( I was thinking of the Firebird Ballet) . Embedded in this treetop is a large rose colored clay pod. The colors are pinks and greens.  This work was made for the Artscape Festival and it was placed in front of the Lyric Theatre for a year. Other tall trees were there so it seemed fitting to have a slightly different one. Again it was made out of metal and the bottom two thirds called to mind oil derricks but was topped by a curvilinear tree top. There was a stoneware ceramic pod or bud embedded in the "leaves" .

Baltimore City workers delivered the work and a number of us got into a lift to insert the top that had been raised by a crane. When we took the work down a year later there was an actual bird's nest in it. 

Rocket P.R.I.D.E. is an aluminum sculpture that students from Katherine Johnson Global Academy worked on with myself and Blake M Conroy. We did art workshops over several weeks ,where the students made cardboard rockets ( the school logo). These were then recreated in aluminum and are part of the sculpture (in red). The silhouettes of the children were created from photographs of the students.

It stands 25 ft tall by 6 ft by 7 ft. It is made from aluminum and powder coated in the school colors.

This is a project funded by Maryland State Arts Council's Public Art Across Maryland

Rocket P.R.I.D.E. is an aluminum sculpture that students from Katherine Johnson Global Academy worked on with myself and Blake M Conroy. We did art workshops over several weeks ,where the students made cardboard rockets ( the school logo). These were then recreated in aluminum and are part of the sculpture (in red). The silhouettes of the children were created from photographs of the students.

It stands 25 ft tall by 6 ft by 7 ft. It is made from aluminum and powder coated in the school colors.

This is a project funded by Maryland State Arts Council's Public Art Across Maryland

This is a detail of a large sculpture. Students originally made these rockets ( the school's mascot) out of cardboard. They were recreated in aluminum to become part of the sculpture. These are approximately 18 inches tall. 

This slide shows the artist- students from the Brooklyn- O'Malley Boys and Girls Club seeing their work all set up for the first time. They are pointing out their drawings that have been cut out of aluminum and become part of the grille work that protects the windows of the building. The colors  pink, yellow and blue are from the organizations's "style guide"

Empower Station was an iteration of an interaction with people so that they can become aware of how everyday acts that they perform for other people,  empower themselves as well. This event was held on Governor's Island  NYC  , so many of the participants said that their act of empowerment was often to give people directions when asked, on the streets of New York . Children participated too.  They wrote on Post It notes and stuck them on a grid of used power cords. Then others could read them.