Sandstone and bronze

An Offering to the River (2012) Sandstone and bronze, 7” x 3” x 4”

I created this piece for a friend who broke his back in the river. He was not paralyzed, mercifully, but healing was slow and painful. The bronze cast of the vertebra (T12) was made to be thrown back into the water on the anniversary of his accident. 

Paper Takes Shape

Emergence (2012) Paper

When I finished the manuscript I'd been working on for four years, a memoir about my long-distance marriage, I felt I was finally coming into my own as a writer, an artist, and a human being. I made Emergence as a way to embody that feeling, and used pages from every draft of the manuscript to make the paper.

Literary First Aid

 Seven Books That Saved My Life (2012) Plywood, glass, stainless steel, books.

I made this sculpture to pay tribute to the writers whose books have saved me again and again. I use the first aid cross in a lot of my work to represent art as a means of self rescue.

You can click on the image to enlarge it, but in case you can't make out all of the titles, here they are:

Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinksi
The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson