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Head Cases – 2011-2012 
Head Cases II - 2021-2022
Head Cases III - 2022-2024


What keeps us awake at night?  This series of ten sculptures explores the worries and thoughts that interrupt that full night’s sleep.  Certainly our minds are active during the daylight hours but it is during the hours of darkness when these thoughts run out of control.  Should we just get up and wrestle them into a calmer state so that a restful sleep can take place – or just toss and turn?  Perhaps putting them into these sculptural forms will ease the tension. 

 

Head Cases III
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                                       Ups and Downs                                    Stop and Go                                      Little Black Thoughts
                                       17x8x6" / 2022                                   10x9x8" / 2023                                12x7x12" / 2024
                                       Welded and painted aluminum /           Welded and painted aluminum /       Welded and painted aluminum /
                                       Painted wood                                        Painted wood                                    Painted wood         
Head Cases II
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All 2022

                                                                

Question Able
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 24 x 9 x 6 inches I 2011

                                                                      

​Exclaim
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 13.5 x 8 x 6 inches I 2011

                                                               

​Again and Again
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 18 x 8 x 8 inches I 2011

                                                                      

​Divisible
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 15 x 7 x 7 inches I 2011

                                                                   

​Partly Cloudy
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 15.5 x 7 x 7 inches I 2011

                                                                       

​No Man
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Laminated plywood, painted wood and cardboard, polyurethane I 123 x 6 x 6 I 2011

                                                              

​This Way and That
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Painted wood, laminated plywood and poplar, polyurethane I 14 x 8 x 9 inches I 2011

                                                          

​Greater Than or Equal
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 14 x 10 x 10 inches I 2011

                                                              

Round and Round
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Painted wood and plastic pipe, polyurethane I 13 x 10 x 9 inches I 2011

                                                                  

​Right Here
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Painted wood, polyurethane I 11 x 12 x 6 inches I 2012