Of 'Coarse'
Flipping the coarseness of our public discourse on its head by capturing the beauty of coarseness in nature. The vessel’s interior is a respite of tranquil watery blue.
Spelunking in the Ether
We humans, are muddling our way through technological evolution, finding ourselves afraid of, intrigued by and captive to that which we do not understand.
Life Distilled: Straight Lines, Circle & Ova...
Breaking a problem down into its most basic elements can provide a path to resolution. Creativity, collaboration and new ideas put that resolution into meaningful action.
Resilience
Surviving a pandemic.
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Mons P.O.T.U.S.
When will the USA have a female leader? Each tile has the I.A.T.A. (International Air Transportation Association) country code. These are the countries that have evolved past the USA in accepting female leadership.
Zarafa
This anthropomorphic sculpture was inspired first by a cartoon then by research that led to Zarafa, a novel by Michael Allin who told her story nearly 200 years later. My interpretation seeks to communicate the conflict within the regard for her beauty and her separation from her natural environment.
Giraffe, giraffe, giraffe (English, French, Italian)-all derive from the Arabic zerafa, a phonetic variant of Zarafa, which means ‘charming’ or ‘lovely one’.
France’s first giraffe was a royal gift from Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt King Charles X of France.
Captured as a calf in the Ethiopian highlands by Arab hunters, she was packed onto a camel to Sennar and shipped down the Blue Nile to be raised in Khartoum. From Khartoum she had traveled the harrowing slave trail down the entire length of the Nile, nearly 2,000 miles to Cairo and Alexandria before sailing across the Mediterranean.
They were three weeks on the Mediterranean, another week waiting in Marseille-thirty two days in all-during which the giraffe rode standing among the other animals in the hold with her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck.
The procession set out on May 20, 1827 from Marseille to Paris in a 550 mile parade. The giraffe became such a never-seen before attraction that crowds rioted around her. By the time the convoy reached Lyon, the giraffe was so famous that 30,000 people turned out to see her. In Paris she was paraded through the city and presented to the king.
She lived for 18 years in Paris a le Jardin des Plantes.
Excerpted from Michael Allin’s book Zarafa
The Offering: Ode to Picasso
Wheel thrown, underglaze and glaze
The Bather
The Bather inspired by Renoir's Series of female forms.
