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Neckpiece:
THE PHILOSOPHY OF A GLANCE.
2000

$1600
+ shipping/handling

While packing for my move to Australia, I was invited by curator
Gail Brown to participate in Attitude & Action! North American
Figurative Jewelry to be premiered at England’s University of Birmingham.

Being a relative stranger to making figurative work, I began to consider
making a portrait with found materials.

I arrived in Sydney and set to work; however my studio contents
were still months from arriving aboard a ship. No tools and no materials,
save for an 18th-century map I brought with me on the plane.

So I lit out on daily walks, picking up detritus from the streets.
A friend let me ‘fossick’ (that most beautiful of Aussie words) in his
uncle’s old barn, and I was off and running. Buying pliers, wire and
a hammer from the local hardware store, I sat in the sun on a milk crate
(no chairs yet!) and fashioned THE PHILOSOPHY OF A GLANCE, an
inauguration to a new environment and a new phase of life.
The figure seems victorious, stretching, hoisting a jewel high into the air.
Looking at the piece in hindsight, I can read the antipodal arrangement
of the figure as inevitably autobiographical: shoulders pushing up from
the bottom quadrant of a globe, arm thrust high to the north,
auguring my straddled relationship with both
hemispheres.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF A GLANCE is featured as the 2000 selection in
the Folio Edition box set.