About Twirling Umbra

The Umbra sculptures, like Twirling Umbra, are explorations of fluid motion, shadow, and the use of not only negative space to bring the surroundings into the body of a sculpture, but also doing so by making the sculpture transparent. In some ways the holes hinder the ability of the sculpture to transmit its surroundings, depending upon the angle it is viewed from.

My sculptures are created to meld with their surrounding, primarily through the use of negative space. Transparency is another way to ignite a sculpture by what surrounds it.