Greek Gods

Aphrodite (front)
2014
Mixed media: paper, cork, paints, text, wire
23x13x13 inches

The Greek Gods breastplate-sculptures revolve on a wooden base so that the viewer can enjoy the outside and inside stories of the gods who continue to be relevant in our modern times.

Aphrodite (side)
2014
Mixed media: paper, cork, paints, text, wire
23x13x13 inches

Aphrodite's breastplate was built over the torso of a beautiful young woman who was in love with two men.

Aphrodite (back)
2014
Mixed media: paper, cork, paints, text, wire
23x13x13 inches

The goddess Aphrodite is all about passionate love. When jealous or crazed with boredom in the bedroom, Aphrodite takes your hand and leads you to the second lover.

Aphrodite (back detail)
2014
Mixed media: paper, cork, paints, text, wire
23x13x13 inches

Aphrodite buys you perfume and push-up bras. Aphrodite is not your mother.

Omphale, Queen of Lydia
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, paint, text, animal hide, wood
23x23x14 inches

Omphale, comes from the Greek word omphalos, which means navel. I painted the outside to echo the wings of a male Prepona Omphale butterfly. The inside of the sculpture expresses the Queen’s amorous feelings about Hercules.

Omphale, Queen of Lydia (back)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, paint, text, animal hide, wood
23x23x14 inches

Omphale Queen of Lydia kept Hercules as a slave for two years and during that time the strongest man in the world did whatever his Queen asked: he dressed up in women’s clothes, worked at a spinning wheel. They had two children together.

Omphale, Queen of Lydia (detail)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, paint, text, animal hide, wood, artist book on back
23x23x14 inches

A book made from animal hide similar to Hercules’s garment is affixed to the back of the sculpture. Inside there are love poems and a story about Pan’s visit to Omphale’s castle.

Omphale, Queen of Lydia (installed)
Gallatea Gallery, Boston, MA
Eros
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, text, ink, paint, leather
34x19x19 inches

Eros is a young, vital man who is out and about looking for love. He is not in the nurturing love phase of his life, nor in a domestic love phase, but swimming in the bliss of searching. His breastplate is blue, like the Hindu god Lord Rama's, an avatar of Vishnu, who also carries a bow and arrow.

Eros (back)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, text, ink, paint, leather
34x19x19 inches

The breastplate is lanced with arrows and “The Ten Commandments of Love.” The artist book attached to the back if filled with love poems.

Eros (with artist at photo shoot)
Nike
2012
Mixed media: paper, marble dust, ink, paint, text
31x11x11 inches

Nike is my daughter riding beside Zeus while she cruised the internet looking for a job.

Nike (detail)
2012
Mixed media: paper, marble dust, ink, paint, text
31x11x11 inches

Grace intervened while I was making this breastplate: my daughter found a job that got her career going. It is my wish that anyone who might possess this sculpture will enjoy tremendous luck.

Nike (back)
2012
Mixed media: paper, marble dust, ink, paint, text
31x11x11 inches

On the back of Nike:

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

- Winston Churchill

Orphao, aka Lil Wayne
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, ink, paint, text
30x19x20 inches

Orpheus' breastplate is modeled on the rap musician Lil Wayne’s tatooed torso. Both are smart, talented bad-boy types who tricked the gods with music.

Orphao, aka Lil Wayne (back)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, ink, paint, text
30x19x20 inches

Orpheus descended to the underworld to look for his wife. He could’ve had her back, on the condition that he did not look back. He looked back.

Orphao, aka Lil Wayne (detail)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, ink, paint, text
30x19x20 inches
Hermes Disguised as Ganesha
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, ink, paint, text
24x25x8 inches

Hermes is a trickster, herdsman, guider of souls, messenger, and the bringer of sleep and dreams. He is also patron of travelers.

Hermes Disguised as Ganesha (back)
2013
Mixed media: paper, plaster, ink, paint, text
24x25x8 inches

The Hindu god Ganesh protects travelers.