Wall Sculptures: The Refractory Series

This began with fingernails making marks in refractory bricks from an old kiln. A fascination with how soft yet so strong this material is. That quickly moved into making marks with old nails, hacksaw blades, and the Dremel. Marks turning into symbols, symbols coming together making stories, stories from patterns around me spurring thoughts and emotions coming through me, now frozen forever in these bricks.

Once glazed, the firing in the kiln bonded them together, forming a three-dimensional sculpture. Eventually, when I ran out of old bricks, the work transitioned into my first love, clay, and these bricks started to climb the walls. I knew these stories in patterns had to continue.

So became The Refractory Series.

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Miss Styx SOLD

$750.00

A brick wall hanging with unique inlay patterns, created by a unique firing process with a lighter-weight brick material. After watching over the river Styx for thousands of years, Hades was sick and tired of it. He told Miss Styx that he was going to go to Los Angeles and open up a nightclub. And asked if she could watch the river just for a couple of centuries so they could take a vacation. Miss Styx agreed, and as soon as she took over, all of the soles coming to the river stopped being souls and started being eyes. As mystics have always said, the eyes are the true window to the soul.

Dimensions: 23” x 18.5” x 1.25”

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