My work is rooted in the exploration of a singular, Platonic ideal—a female head that serves as the foundation for all my sculptures. Each piece is a unique interpretation of this archetype, carved from wood to capture the essence of an ideal form that transcends time and culture.

The head, as a symbol of thought, identity, and presence, is central to my creative process. By continually reinterpreting this one form, I seek to uncover the infinite possibilities that exist within the boundaries of an ideal. Each sculpture reflects a different facet of the same concept, emphasizing the tension between uniformity and individuality.

Wood, with its organic textures and warmth, allows me to breathe life into these abstract ideals. The act of carving is a dialogue between the material and the form, where each stroke of the chisel reveals something new, not only about the form but about the nature of the ideal itself.

Through this focused study of a singular Platonic head, I aim to bridge the gap between the ideal and the tangible, creating forms that exist in a space between reality and abstraction. My sculptures are not merely representations but echoes of an ideal—an exploration of form, structure, and the human experience as filtered through the lens of Platonic thought.

After carving several heads I realized that some needed bodies and an Ur figure based on horizontal and vertical cross sections was the result.  A series of configurations of multiple figures soon followed.

As with the heads, each figure starts with the base Ur form.  These sculptures invite viewers to contemplate the tension between the perfect and the imperfect, the whole and the fragmented, the seen and the unseen. Each figure, while derived from the same foundational model, is a unique exploration of how an ideal can be expressed through the variability and imperfection inherent in the physical world. My work is a meditation on the nature of form itself—how it can be simultaneously singular and manifold, familiar and mysterious.

Every piece is a puzzle.  At each stage of a sculpture I’m solving a problem - color, texture, visual balance.  Each time one problem is solved, a new one is created.  The process continues until I can step back from a piece and not see any more problems to be solved.  Here are some of the stages of (marzipan & mint).

Donna Feldman Davis is a Baltimore photographer.  The best pictures in the projects above are hers.  Serendipity brought us together.  She liked my sculptures; I liked her aesthetic.  Donna’s primary focus is nudes and when she asked if she could photograph my work with her models, it was an emphatic “yes”.  The following work is hers.  I love the thought that my work can be part of something larger, part of a shared dream.  You can see more of her work at provoculos.com or on instagram at donnashootsprovoculos .

Thank you Donna

My brother Alex is an artist in Tucson, Arizona.  I started playing with images of his paintings, layering them with each other, with images of my work, with pictures of friends and family.  The new images are sent back to Alex.  He plays with them and sends them to me. Back and forth, layering and recombining, generations and lineages of new imagery are born.

I usually have several sculptures in progress at any given time and often play with swapping elements of one with another.  I have also begun to explore A.I. image to image generation both within the digital work and as a resource for sculptural possibilities.