Dimensions variable on 12" x 12"
x 37" pedestals, 2011-2012
Wood, plaster, acrylic paint
In this disarmingly sly, yet complex and polemical sculpture cycle Michael explores the twin polarities of Erotic desiring impulse — the sexual and the idealizing.
Dimensions variable on 12" x 12"
x 37" pedestals, 2010
Air dry pottery clay
In many ways this short cycle of minimalist sculptures is a complement and an antithesis to the "Eros and Geometry" series. The work takes a single-purpose utilitarian object – the cup – and makes it a totem of impossibility of desire's fulfillment, of frustration and failure.
The functional breakdown and impracticality of physical size underscore the resulting melancholy. For the Erotic impulse is palpably absent, or even forcibly exiled, in these monochromatic and desolate forms.
