bone. My muscles are made of first comforted, and then gradually work – often say they feel like they
batting, again, when felt it "gives" lost within the furls of the swirling are not alone in their homes. I es-
like muscle tissue. Skin is made fabrics. When I recovered I was ob- pecially enjoy hearing that someone
of layers of semi translucent ny- sessed with creating the sculpture. saw something new in a sculpture
lon, the inner layers are reds Not being able to move it doesn't they had been living with for years.
and pinks and the outer layers capture her completely, but the Some nuance or emotion not no-
tan, ecru or brown. As the light face is exactly the face I saw, so I ticed before. I think that is the best
enters the fabric layers, and then consider the "Angel of Death" one compliment an artist can hear.
bounces off the inner white bat- of my best sculptures.
What are you currently working on?
ting, the skin tones are mixed in
Each of the figures appear to be in- I am currently working on a one-
the reflected light. The result
fused with spirit. They seem to carry woman show for the CFM Gallery.
can't be seen in photographs,
and project emotion, like they pos- The location is 236 West 27th Street,
only when the sculpture is
sess their own personas. Was there Suite 4F West, Chelsea, NYC 10001.
viewed in person –it is a kind of
ever a point in time where you felt 212-966-3864,info@cfmgallery.com.
warm glow.
you had achieved this? www.cfmgallery.com. The show is
Where do you get the ideas for Proportion and size are issues. I would planned for November of 2010.
your sculpures? Do you ever love to make more life-sized figures,
dream about your art and then but nylon is universally manufac-
design a figure from that expe- tured in tubes now. To cut even
rience? the biggest size tube you rarely
I get ideas for my sculptures have more than 8 inches of width
from so many different places it to work with. If I had a time machine
would be difficult to list them all. I I would go back to the 1930s and
take photographs, do research, 40s when nylon was made in sheets.
sketch from life, use memories – if The understructures are realistic in
someone really impresses me I can any size, but the more you stretch
carry their image in my mind for nylon, the less control you have
years. Then it often becomes like a over subtle features.
ghost that I have no choice but to Thank you for saying my works
sculpt. seems infused with spirit. A huge
It is interesting that you mention part of me becomes the persona
dreams. A few years ago I slipped when I create a figure –it truly is a
on the ice. Because I didn't break a labor of love. To me they are more
bone I thought I was okay, but the than sculptures, they are somehow
ligaments holding the muscles to real people. Over the course of
the bone had been broken, and my career it has been a pleasure
muscle dies when it is not connect- to hear from those who own my
ed. Dying muscle puts toxins in the
blood, so for the next few days I
was in bed being rather delirious. I
had a dream where the cracks in
the ceiling formed squares, which
then lined up into filmstrips. Then
the film was running in my head like
a movie. A figure walked into the
kinetic square and it was then that I
saw a vision of the Angel of Death.
I could see her so clearly –she had
wings that were held low behind
her back, making crackling sounds
within a magical black fabric she
was wearing. She was a kind, com-
passionate harbinger, but it was the
silky fabric of her dress that was
Death. I could see a small child at
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