"Earth Healer" Installation at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA ( click image to view slideshow)
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This work is installed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA. It is on display in the center of the Healing Garden, with medicinal herbs growing around the perimeter. This work depicts a female figure holding out her arms in a cradling position. Healing herbs are growing from inside the figure’s arms. The figure’s body expands down, merging with the earth. By depicting the figure as part of the landscape and an extension of the environment, the sculpture symbolizes a human connection to earth. The work also represents the power of earth to provide, nourish and facilitate life. The work was inspired from visiting the gardens, and is part of an ongoing vision to incorporate landscape with the human figure. The sculpture is 7.5 feet tall. It is made from clay, dirt, rocks mixed with a small amount of cement so the work can withstand the elements. The bottom hall of the piece is a grass mound.
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Beulah Wiley Portrait Bust ( click image to view slideshow)
Mrs. Wiley was a well-known community activist from Cumberland, Virginia. She founded the Central Virginia Community Health Center in 1970. The Central Virginia Community Health Center now has 15 locations across Virginia and provides care to over 48,000 people per year.
I sculpted the bust from old/faded photographs and accounts from her family members. The portrait bust is on permeant display at the newly remodeled and growing Health Center in New Canton Va. I feel privileged to have created a bust to honor such an individual so highly valued by the healthcare community in central Virginia.
21" (tall) x 23" x 12" | Completed in 2012.
The bust is made from porcelain, her glasses are made of bronze.
I sculpted the bust from old/faded photographs and accounts from her family members. The portrait bust is on permeant display at the newly remodeled and growing Health Center in New Canton Va. I feel privileged to have created a bust to honor such an individual so highly valued by the healthcare community in central Virginia.
21" (tall) x 23" x 12" | Completed in 2012.
The bust is made from porcelain, her glasses are made of bronze.
The Baker-Butler Reading Bear (click image to view slideshow)
This sculpture was part of the “Tom Tom Founders Festival of Music, Arts, & Innovation” in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over 1,000 children and adults were invited to press their fingers into the bear when it was wet clay. Their combined finger imprints created a texture for the bear’s fur. This sculpture is now on permeant display in front of Baker-Butler Elementary School in Charlottesville, VA. This piece is colored with underglazes.
5' x 4.5' x 4.5' | Completed in 2012
5' x 4.5' x 4.5' | Completed in 2012
AZIT Soapstone Sculpture (click image to view slideshow)
This sculpture is on permeant display in the Echoes of Nature Sculpture Park at Baker-Butler Elementary School. It serves a place of meditation and conversation. It was designed by Su Park, and I got commissioned to build the piece.
Installation: 17' x 21' | Completed in 2010
Installation: 17' x 21' | Completed in 2010
