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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$2,250.00

A brick wall hanging with unique inlay patterns, created by a unique firing process with a lighter-weight brick material. Inspired from looking out of an airplane over farmland, and always intrigued by the patterns, the way the rivers flow through the land and the way different parcels of property have different things growing on them. And different patterns where something’s happening on one side of a river and something else is happening on the other. The headstone shows the different phases of the sun, necessary for all growth

Dimensions: 39.5” x 27” x 1.25”

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