Ths
large charcoal drawing was completed while working at artist co-op
Studio 425 in Kent, Ohio. This drawing is an early piece in a
long line of biomechanical or organic machine oriented designs.
The work obviously owes a nod to the 'Godfather of Biomechanics',
H.R. Giger, but my pieces were always looking towards something
more ancient.
The
idea of Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian sculpting aesthetic
or canon, as well as Mayan and Aztec heiroglyphics being applied
to something functional has always been in these works. The mechanical
elements are employed so as to hint at some sort of unknown function,
yet designed into an aesthetically enigmatic scupltural piece.