Smallest and Biggest?

 The query above is the one most often posed to me by young children viewing my art. Adults most often ask is how long a specific piece took to complete.The latter is a dull one for a blog! I have made many horses with great care and focus. However, the horse in the photo below was made absentmindedly one day with several pieces of leftover Copper wire. It is probably the smallest work I have created. The picture below is a Chinese Dragon which once hung on the side of a futon store. It is also shown on the owner's garage, where it resides today. The work was bartered for a futon bed, a futon lounger, several futons, a table and a Japanese lamp. At 26 feet or so stretched out fully, it is my longest work to date.

Repeated Forms


Creating a series of objects representing the same subject utilizing different materials is inherently
satisfying. In the 90's I made eight or nine versions of a man practicing Tai-Chi. There was an aluminum parts assemblage version, a brass wire version and so on. I had lost my long-time teacher of the art and perhaps I was working something out with myself. Pictured below is a series of snails made of corrugated Copper, brass plate, brass wire and Copper wire.