Stainless Steel and Glass

36″ x 14″ x 12″ | 62cm x 36cm x 30 cm

A year into the isolation and uncertainty of the Covid19 pandemic, I hadn’t created one new piece. My galleries were opening and closing trying to follow the Covid protocols, art collectors weren’t really traveling, and I was in a bit of a depression over the state of affairs.

One day out of the blue, a man stood at my open studio door and asked to talk with me about commissioning something, but he didn’t know exactly what, neither did I. After talking with him for a while, I grabbed a piece of curved stainless steel that I had cut off of a sculpture a year previous (Holding the Intangible) . . . I looked around the studio, and my eyes landed on a stack of thick glass that remained from another project (Reaching for Eternity).

He and I laid the elements out on the studio floor in something approximating this sculpture’s final form of a wave. He asked for the base to be high for a logistical reason and we shook on it. The next day, my studio suddenly came back to life, and it hasn’t slowed down since that day!