STICKS AND STONES

AND THE RELEVANCY

Built in Portland, Oregon, July 2006, this sculpture is called Sticks, Stones and Shadows, and is created on the spot, on the raft, on the water. This sculpture is precariously built of sticks and stones, objects that, within their frailty still have the ability to Break our Bones. The shape of the seven objects express an intersection of many places, and the accumulation of the similar back in to the one single tower of thought. Sigmund Freud famously stated "Accumulation puts an end to the impression of chance.” Human conflict and conflict resolution are expressed equally here.
Each of the shapes can represent one of the six inhabited continents and one land mass. Their sameness and delocalization expresses a world that no longer has the set focal points and are held together by a precarious balance of import and export economies, non-governmental organizations, and multinational corporations. The sculpture expresses a primal futurism, a mass architecture built of the same materials – and most likely on the water.

sailing and rowing

erecting and building

Sticks and stones are two halves to the common proverbial or idiomatic pairs or pairs employed in common spoken or written usage.