Towers Wood Piece

Finally finished the towers piece and added it to the web site.
Cherry is a very hard wood and reacts nicely to a high polish finish. This piece really came out nicely. At over 5 feet tall it is a conversation starter. When I was installing it the first time it was shown in New Jersey, some construction guys walked by and said "that is some great firewood"!

I was focused on some time-honored sculpture traditions with this piece. Immediately evident are positive and negative space. You can see that turning the logs to face away from each other created this profile of negative space, with some great tension! The outward facing surfaces are slightly concave, offering a great reflection with the high polish surface. The line created by the negative space was inspired by the knot pictured at the right. You can see how this line matches the line created by the two halves of the sculpture.

I also played with texture, keeping the surfaces that face each other rough and adding a high polish finish to the outside surfaces. There is plenty to say about which face we show to the world and how we treat those that are closest to us, but I'll leave that to others.

This wood sculpture would really do best indoors, but the tung oil finish will protect it well enough outside. Tung oil is all natural and easy to re-apply, so I will keep it in good shape until I find a permanent home for it.

The sculpture was completed in 2000, before September 11, and shown at The College of New Jersey. It has been in storage until now.