The Journey of Intersecting Shapes and Flowing Lines
Self portrait Life size, profile view private collection I view sculpture and furniture very similarly. Shapes intersecting, overlapping, and carrying the line for and with one another. It is my hope that the eye is taken on a journey, finding the story of the piece. This is one of my favorite sculptures to date. It is the result of the convergence of many factors in my life. I had been self-saturated with African art for many years and I was studying art at a time when the curriculum focused on the changes that had occurred in art since “The Academy”. I’m talking about the early 20 th century with Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism etc. We studied realism, extensively. This head, in fact, was sculpted as a realistic head. I had been doing realistic sculptures since 9 th grade and I was quite good at it. After a while, I found it to be boring. So what if I could make something look exactly like something else? I didn’t feel any satisfaction from capturing a gest