The Four Matriarchs

2015, 10″ x 36″ x 11″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Wood

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WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY
Austin Texas

The figures are four generations of women: daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. The base is from a rocking chair that my mother gave to me. In the rocking chair’s arm was the form of a mother and her pregnant belly holding that next generation; that next life and untold story.

The Cigar 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.

Exhibition History

• Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

Voyage: Cigar Figures

2014, 17″ x 62.5″ x 4.25″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, and Steel

The Cigar Figures come from a Native American story of my childhood that my mother told of the “Stick People”. These Stick People were figures that would run through the night and call your name, if you were to go with them you were never hear from again. The Cigar Figures are my re-interpretation of that story. The story of family and our past, when light falls on the figures the shadow cast on the wall represents for me memory. Like a shadow these memories cannot be held, in the end, we are only a shadow in history shadows on this earth.

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Austin, TX

BOXED IN

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
11.5”x 5”x 5”

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Wally Workman Gallery
Austin, TX

This began as a fun photo with my daughter and a box and became a look of choices we make in our lives we can “box” our selves in with choices we thought were the right path.

BALANCE

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, Steel, and Sterling Silver
11.5”x 5”x 5”

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Wally Workman Gallery
Austin, TX

Balance looks at the two sides of a self there is the masculine and the feminine. In the case of the boy he is trying to catch the fish and the girl is then releasing the caught fish back into nature. The fish, like the silver birds, I cast in sterling silver are a referred to that which are precious they are important and precious, for this reason the birds are cast in the precious metal sterling silver.