Goat Sculpture

Goat is a simple and graceful piece of abstract sculpture. It stands directly on its legs without a base, its body delineated with a few lengths of copper tubing and textured cement, with a piece of chain-sawed cherry tree for a head and loops of copper tubing for horns. The figurative gesture is a goat turning in mid-stride. Goat began when I came across a pile of tree cuttings beside a city street. I was intrigued with the fabulously ornate patterns of growth and decomposition, exposed by the actions of the chain saw operator. One piece looked so much like a goat's head, I just wanted to celebrate that unintended likeness. I decided to make the piece with little intervention, leaving the tree cutting mostly unchanged—saw marks, weathering and all—and creating a simple, gestural “body” with lightly textured gray and white Portland cement/sand mix. The work is sealed only for interior display. Natural and human forces had conspired to set up this illusion—the tree lives its life, subject to climate change, insects, and finally a person with a chain saw—and I just took it a short distance from there. I would like for people to come away with a sense of excitement in collaboration with nature—how we could sometimes do less, and still play important roles in a grand conversation.

Sculpture:Metal on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:45 W x 51 H x 40 D in

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