Nine Muses, Edition #28/30

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Created for his sister Beth: A story of life’s potential. When I put clay on the wheel, I feel as if I’m aligning the whole universe in my hands! Like in Dr. Seuss’s book, “Horton Hears a Who!”, I listen for something in the clay. That potential is intangible and it hangs in the center of our being; symbolized with the tethers hanging under the lid in this vessel. This bas-relief sculptural artwork on a bronze vessel looks as if the work was at one time, pliable, malleable or flexible. The egg shape is one of the most powerful designs in nature. Elongated legs of these “Nine Muses” are grounded on the form of the egg’s potential. The lid has a composition of horse’s legs running at full speed in a race.

Nine Muses was awarded the Susan and Robert Polack Prize at the National Sculpture Society’s 87th Annual Awards Exhibition