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.
Upper panel for Path
These Three pieces Come together to make The Path. The path that we are all on.
From our birth To the repeated lessons, early years where we get a glimpse of it.
At some point we start to walk our own, until inevitably we find our enlightenment.
Three pieces come together with the dimensions of eight foot by sixteen inches. $4200 for all three or $1600 for the one panel.
