Flying Cloths

When raising my family an image of a cloth flying outside a window of the home became a symbol of freedom for me. I imagined ‘Flying Cloth’ being something unreachable and desirable. I tried to capture the light, flexible, and airy quality of this ‘flying cloth’ in my sculptures using thin-gauged aluminum cut-outs, and hanging them from trees and other structures. I was also working on the human scale shelter sculptures at the same time, which were architectural and solidly grounded. Eventually combining these two different modes of works to form a unified whole, I created tensile and flexible but structurally strong sculptures in steel and aluminum. Sometimes they are like shelters with an airy-quality and an observer may walk within, sit down, or pass through, and other times they are just to be observed.