Slide No. 1
Heads, Studio View Detail, 2002–2021
Stone, bronze, steel, wax
360 × 200 cm (occupied space)
Slide No. 2
Heads, Studio View Detail, 2002–2021
Stone, bronze, steel, wax
360 × 200 cm (occupied space)
Slide No. 3
Heads, Studio View Detail, 2002–2021
Stone, bronze, steel, wax
360 × 200 cm (occupied space)
Slide No. 4
Headstone No. 1, View 1, 1993
Steel, stone
29 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 5
Headstone No. 1, View 2, 1993
Steel, stone
29 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 6
Headstone No. 1, Installation View, 1993
Steel, stone
29 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 7
Headstone No. 5, View 1, 1994
46 × 18 × 5 cm
Slide No. 8
Headstone No. 5, View 2, 1994
46 × 18 × 5 cm
Slide No. 9
Headstone No. 3, View 1, 1993
Steel, stone
28 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 10
Headstone No. 3, View 2, 1993
Steel, stone
28 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 11
Head No. 1, Version 1, View 1, 1997
Stone with electroplated bronze
28 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 12
Head No. 1, Version 1, View 2, 1997
Stone with electroplated bronze
28 × 18 × 6 cm
Slide No. 13
Bronze Head No. 1, View 2, 2000
Bronze
29.8 × 25.4 × 17.8 cm
Slide No. 14
Bronze Head No. 1, View 1, 2000
Bronze
29.8 × 25.4 × 17.8 cm
Slide No. 15
Bronze Head No. 2, View 1, 2015
Bronze
23.5 × 29.5 × 15.8 cm
Slide No. 16
Bronze Head No. 2, View 3, 2015
Bronze
23.5 × 29.5 × 15.8 cm
Slide No. 17
Bronze Head No. 3, View 1, 2015
Bronze
27.4 × 21.6 × 20 cm
Slide No. 18
Bronze Head No. 3, View 2, 2015
Bronze
27.4 × 21.6 × 20 cm
Slide No. 19
Bronze Head No. 4, View 1, 1994
Bronze, electroplated stone
39 × 21.5 × 12 cm
Slide No. 20
Bronze Head No. 4, View 2, 1994
Bronze, electroplated stone
39 × 21.5 × 12 cm
Slide No. 21
Bronze Head No. 5, View 1, 2000
30.5 × 48.8 × 7 cm
Slide No. 22
Bronze Head No. 5, View 2, 2000
30.5 × 48.8 × 7 cm
Heads (1997 - 2021)
Note: A number of the individual Heads have become part of the installation Heads (1977-2021).
One day on my walk, I paused by a pile of stones. I picked one up and turned it over only to discover a head looking at me. Through time my collection of head stones grew. Each stone holds a secret; over time its marks are etched and inscribed.
When I pick up a stone, or a bit of earth, I suddenly become aware that my comprehension of time is not like the time of the earth. We are somehow so caught up in our own experience that it is hard to comprehend where we have come from or where we are going – to grasp reality away from our own experience. When I observe a rock or the water in a river I realize that its lifeline is part of a reality and time that I cannot understand.
“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.