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CYPRESS
Stoneware and Stones

"These two towers with their overlapping plates and meandering fissures seem to have been shaped in geologic time, by forces at large in the earth's very core. But they might just as well be armored limbs of some uncatalogued dinosaur, torn in a spasm of prehistoric violence and left for us to discover as petrified ghosts. There is a primal presence which can be felt in the mummified vertical forms as they stand, side-by side and speak silently of their tombs."

-- Phillip Bishop, Art Critic

These pinnacles, built in layers, stacked and pounded, incised and impressed as the layers grew, with petroglifs and marks of ancient years imbedded in the surface, represent layers of antiquity and layers of the earth’s metamorphosis. After the clay has been formed, it is placed in a large kiln, fired to 2100 degrees F. and turned to stone. Placed side by side, a vortex of positive energy is created between these towers.

"Cypress" 1999
Leu Gardens Installation 2004
Approx. 5' x 2' x 1' each
Stoneware & Stones