When Time is Up

The next large sculpture I made after finishing Global Warming Sun was "When Time's Up". I began by making a fish out of beer boxes. At first I meant it to move. It has movable joints.

But then I decided to create an environment for it. I made a large diorama for it. It had whiskers like a catfish although I have never seen a catfish that shade of green but the catfishiness  made me want to put him in a bayou swamp. I thought about doing it underwater or half and half but ultimately decided to have him jumping out of the water.

This particular iteration did not have the action that I wanted so I kept trying and eventually built a splash I was happy with from a corn-dog box. I think this id the first sculpture that I really worked on combining collage and found color. In fact the fish was the original experiment with using found color.

I also added the "dragonfly" If you look closely the dragonfly is actually a human form. This piece really helped clarify the Power of Nature, Folly of Man theme. This was also the first frame project. It took a while to work out proportions.

But eventually I got it all worked out. This piece has shown at K Gallery at Rythmix Cultural Center and at East Bay MUD in Oakland.