Collateral Damage: "If You Can't Say Anything Good About Someone, Sit Right Here By Me"*

1999. stoneware benches, 16"x75"x15",
(Four benches of stacked stoneware slabs with figures emerging from the surfaces)

My sculpture employs architectural elements in order to create structures that are playful yet ominous and contradictory. Many of my works can be read as monuments. The Latin translation of "monument" alludes to things that remind. My sculptures are psychological stopping points, offering a place to contemplate a complex world. They are not heroic memorials, but quiet commemorations.

* Quotation from an embroidered pillow on a loveseat belonging to Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

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