I am a sculptor by training and predilection. I make sculpture, I draw like a sculptor (3D images, not flat composition), make prints like a sculptor (process process process) and paint like a sculptor (it's all about material). I do a lot of architecture and furniture, which is just useful sculpture. Still, my work is not just sculpture - lots of painting, etching, drawing. At first blush it might seem like a lack of focus. Not so. All my work has the same hand, same taste, same treatment; only the formats vary.

I don't talk much about my work: my work speaks for me.

Friday, June 17, 2011

"Yukiko Inchanko"  cast iron, lifesize, 2006 or so.   I usually cast by myself using homemade blast furnaces, cupolas, tools, and scrap metals, pouring into sand/portland cement molds.   I have let professional foundries pour a few pieces, which come out perfect, which is NOT what I wanted.  The work above started in life as a bathtub.

"ZAZEN"  lifesize, champhor wood figure with rosewood chair,  2005 - 2008.
The figure was carved in Japan, and the chair in America.  Like most of my figures, it is my wife, Yukiko Oka.  Sort of.  Also, obviously, it is a meditating Buddha.  These are always either male or androgenous... I figure it is time for the feminine spirit to get some attention, at least in sculpture.
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