Basics, 12' x 14' x 4' ( 11 tablets, approx 4' x 2' each), steel, 1993
| My sculptural series, Sticks & Stones utilizes text burnt into steel vases and tablets to examine American political concepts and myths. Contrary to the children's ditty, words have powerful consequences. Basics, a hanging wall of steel tablets, offers definitions of words that underlie our political beliefs and social circumstances. Light passes through the craggy holes that form the letters, drawn directly on the bare, rusty steel surfaces with a welding torch. The tablets are the urgent vehicles for words, definitions, and statements. One tablet bears the definitions for "life," "liberty," "happiness," and "pursuit." These words are so common that we no longer pay attention to them. |
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