ABSTRACT Sculptures need to be seen from all around. The shapes all relate to each other. This sculpture shows two sides, but the shapes connect.
ERUPTION A flimsy colorful silk fabric erupting out of a solid black block of stone. A contrast in texture, shape, and materials.
MADONNA The warmth of the Madonna’s is in her embrace, though her face is ethereal (in the negative space).
NOCTURNE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT The figure or bird or animal is lying peacefully, sleeping in the night.
ORIGAMI BIRD A bird ready to take flight. As in the shapes in the Japanese art of paper folding origami, this stone bird also consists of straight lines, flat surfaces, and sharp edges, yet recognizable for what it is Profile of a lady. The transparency of lucite permits the sculpture to be seen from the front and the back at the same time. The eye is carved in the back.
THE LITTLE MERMAID The little mermaid is not quite a person, not quite a fish, and finds it difficult to fit into either society.
THE CONTINUOUS CONNECTION Commissioned by Tel-Aviv University and 45 copies were given in acknowledgment to big-time donors. The two interconnected knots at the bottom are the university with the third knot with extended arms is the student excitedly facing the future. There is no visible beginning or end to the interconnected knots.
SELF-DESTRUCTION In an abstract way I was saying that as people grow from infancy gradually, predictably, at some point some people turn into themselves and bit by bit, stage by stage, they destroy their lives with their habits, behavior, values, and decisions, drugs, alcohol, vice, abuse their careers, and their families.
OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST Just by looking at the abstract shapes of the lucite, it’s easy to understand which symbolizes optimism and which shows pessimism.
WOMAN A woman is supposed to be strong, sensitive, beautiful, colorful, and unpredictable. The colors are what the lava spouted out, that no artist could copy.
IDENTICAL CELLS In a Petri dish, for the first four days the live cells of a fish, a baby, a chicken, and a piglet are identical and undecipherable. On the fifth day, they begin to grow into what they are going to be.
LOTUS This flower is the symbol of purity in Chinese culture. It grows from a seed in a murky pond into a beautiful delicate flower floating on a leaf on the surface of the pond. This one is made of sheets of transparent lucite. The stem is severed, and the flower is lying on its side.
SEATED FIGURE A one-line sketch in bronze.
ZEN Zen is the inner glow, the soul. The stone, a Persian onyx, glows warmly from within when a light is shone directly over it.
YING YANG In Chinese culture, Yin Yang symbolizes the opposites which consist in the universe. The image of negative and positive, good, and bad, big, and small, black and white, curved shapes within a circle is translated further in the sculpture into flowing in and flowing out, smooth, and textured surfaces, back and front, rigid and curved.
HARMONY This sculpture was in an international exhibit in Finland. Our American group’s theme was Harmony. I called it seeing with our hearts, which in my opinion brings about harmony in relationships. The smooth flowing lines of the eyes, with shiny black pupils in one continuous line into merge into an open heart. There is no beginning or end to this combined continuous flow from eyes to heart. This shape and this concept could be created as a large outdoor sculpture or as a tiny pendant with green or blue eyes.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Lucite)