bronze on stone base
"The 14 bronze and marble sculptures revert to the artist’s more classical style. The materials tend to move the sometimes gruesome subject matter to an abstract ‘memento mori.’ "
Epoxy figure on a found object armour plate. Rob’s story in the background.
from the catalog 'Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War'
"...Yeah, you get that sound, that one didn’t detonate so it just, basically you just hear the whistle of the air rushing past the round. This was like a Krummpp! and then it was a thwih just a sheeau as it went over. The sound that RPG makes is a terrifying sound, it’s just, it strikes you right down to the core..."
Detail of a story told in, ‘Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War ’. These are light jet prints on aluminium inspired by military translation pamphlets.
wall mounted, epoxy: shown in both orientations, up and down
painted bronze
The Catalog: Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War, 38 pages, colour. With an introduction by Dick Averns is $ 28 CDN plus shipping.
There was a time, in Afghanistan, when children collected the refuse of war for the scrap trade - this is a 2 foot long bronze sculpture.
21.220 grain copper jacketed lead sculpture. A girl waits for target practice to end in order to collect the bullets and trade them for scrap.