A Quiet Place and a Desert

A Quiet Place and a Desert Are Pretty Much the Same Thing

31 x 20 x 5 in. steel, 2020

Another piece that came to me more or less complete in concept and named itself when completed. This is the usual way. The concept arrives fully formed and I am the workman executing it. The name also is a gift. 

And as is often the case, this artwork closely fits my mood of vague drifting at the time. I typically work in silence and I felt lost, without direction. 

My artworks often recall difficult, sometimes painful times. People tend to view them similarly, but value them as life markers: statements of a time now past, demonstrating the distance they have come since.