16” x 18” x 3”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina and Found Wood
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2015, 23″ x 7″x 2 1/4″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and African Mahogany
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MA Doran Gallery
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2014, 21″ x 63″ x 5.25″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Wood
In the story I made up with my daughter there is a young girl who is playing outside when she hears a rustling in the bushes next to her, as she looks closer she sees this beautiful dragon emerge with a long body and tail. They both stare at each other in amazement and then the dragon says, “Can you see me? Only MY Rider can truly see me.” The young girl tells the dragon “I can see you” they then road through the skies for the rest of the afternoon. When her mom looked out the window she only saw her playing with a stick but for the girl, she saw her dragon.
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Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
7” x 4” x 7”
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JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK
There is a moment in our lives that we have to let go of what we know and free fall to the next place I feel this requires a kind of faith that in the release and the twists you will land on your feet.
2019, 6” x 5.5” x 4.75”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
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2019, 6.5” x 5” x 1”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
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2017, 60” x 24” x 68”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Cedar, and Steel
There are no names here for they are all our family, our history, our present, and the
next generation. The figures walk across a cedar tree base that has the shape of a dragon’s head, it was ripped open lengthwise from a wind storm, exposing the rough center revealing the lines that show its life and history. Growing up, my mother would use cedar to purify our home, release spirits, and chase away bad dreams. That smell for me is home. I de-barked the exterior but kept the curve of the tree and its raw surface. You see the figures walking through time—their life above and the tree’s life below, and the life that lived within the tree are all interwoven. The connected flow of life can be over looked from the hurry of our daily lives. It is often in loss that we are ripping apart to see ourselves, and the profound interconnection we all have surfaces telling of the Dragon we all walk across that we fight or that we care for within.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The faces are of the people from my memory a collection of details on one side like that of a photograph and the other of a silhouetted family portrait just the shape of the face the shadow of the person in history and in my memory.
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2019, 27” x 24” x 5.5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
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2019, 3.5” x 2” x 1.75”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
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2015, 28” x 16.5” x 5.5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina and Locust Wood
When I was young we lived on a mountain in Cherokee, NC, my father taught at the Indian School for several years. My memories have no words from that time just images, some of running the woods, others of going up and down the winding stairs to go to school. The “Gathering” is my interpretation of that part of my life; my coming home to the place and to the people I am a part of.
The wood is from a Locust tree. It is cut lengthwise; it exposes the rough center of the tree and the lines, the lines of the tree show its history. This wood is cut on the angle to be the mountain I lived upon, and the mountain we all climb during life.
When “Gathering” is hung the light cast shadows of the figures on the wall, these shadows represent for me memories. Memories cannot be held they have no words, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
I used my Cigar Figures to represent my family in “Gathering”. These figures come from a Native American story of my childhood that my mother told of the “Stick People”. The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name, she never described the figures and I was drawn to the idea of what they looked like for most of my life. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past. The figures are made of real cigars and found sticks. I create molds of the cigars and then cast them and the sticks in bronze. The faces are of the people from my past and my present.
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