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Fish Tales - 2015
 
Sitting in a boat watching the sun come up – will we catch anything this morning?  Maybe after dinner will be better.  This series explores the hours spent in a fishing boat with parents, with grown kids, with grandkids on Minnesota lakes taking in the quiet of the water.  Conversations mingle with silence while we await the excitement of a catch.  In these sculptures I have tried to set up a story to be continued.  What led up to this particular scene and how will it be completed?  Within each piece the fascination of sculpturally depicting water is prominent.  Color, texture, and surface textures were compelling reasons to explore each one.
 

​Calm Waters

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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 13x10x6" / 2015

Big Wave

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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 11x10x5" / 2015

​Fast Water

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Painted wood, polyurethane / 10x16x6" / 2015
Over the Limit
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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 12x12x5" / 2015

Capsized

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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 36x7x9" / 2015

The Hot Spot

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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 12x9x7" / 2015
60 HP
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Painted wood, welded and painted steel, polyurethane / 36x10x7" / 2015
Barely Afloat
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Painted wood, welded and painted wood, polyurethane / 24x9.5x6" / 2015
Long Shadow West
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Painted wood, polyurethane / 35x10x4" / 2015
Rocking Water
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Painted wood, polyurethane / 24x13x6" / 2015
The One's That Got Away
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Painted wood, polyurethane / 15x12x6" / 2015