NYC inspired sculptures

In the summer of 2002 my family and I visited New York City.  As one does, I did a lot of walking in the city.  There are a lot of road construction sites in that city. Construction crews were using large timbers, painted white with red strips, as barriers and traffic control.  This has stuck with me, and once back in my studio, I started creating sculptures that were inspired by what I had seen in NYC.

'Sweden vs. NYC'-2013

'Turn Here or There'-2013

The sculptures are made from re-claimed construction timbers that have been joined together with chisel and mallet joint work.  They are painted in high gloss exterior acrylic paint.  As it turns out, 'Turn Here or There' makes for a pretty great outdoor love seat.  The sculptures are attached to steel plates that can be bolted to a concrete footing or pad.

After completion of these two pieces, I had a lot of cut-off sections of construction timber.  I have used all of the scrap pieces to make a bunch of wonderful small sculptures.  These woodblock sculptures were made with a japanese pull saw, chisels, a file, and an old Rockwell band saw.  They have all been sanded and protected with two coats of varnish. You can see the rest of the wood block series at my website on the 'available work' page(link below):

AVAILABLE ART WORK

Woodblock series #12130