SCULPTURE
The Steward
2026
Bronze
Maquette
24.5 × 7 × 7.5 in
The Steward
2026
Bronze
Life-size
74 × 24 × 24 in
The Steward honors the Mexican-American agricultural workers whose labor and knowledge sustain much of the American West’s cultivated landscape. The figure stands in a moment of preparation, rolling his sleeve before returning to work. His clothing hangs loosely on a lean frame—details that reflect a life shaped by physical labor and long familiarity with the land. Rather than depicting a heroic gesture, the sculpture focuses on the dignity found in common acts of care, repetition, and responsibility.
Commissioned for installation at a vineyard in Northern California, the work acknowledges those whose hands shape the character of the land while often remaining unseen. Vineyards, like many agricultural landscapes of the West, rely on generations of immigrant labor and knowledge passed through practice. In this context, the steward becomes both an individual portrait and a broader symbol of those who cultivate, protect, and understand the land through perpetual work. Installed within a vineyard dedicated to quality, preservation, and thoughtful stewardship of the environment, the sculpture reflects a shared ethic: that the land is not merely owned, but cared for.
Service and Sacrifice
2025
Bronze
20 × 46 × 18 in
Edition of 25
Service & Sacrifice depicts a plow left motionless in the field, the reins draped loosely as two horses stand between movement and pause. One horse looks forward, unaware of the farmer’s absence, while the other turns back toward the abandoned plow, suggesting a moment of interruption within the rhythm of labor. The farmer is not present, yet his absence defines the scene.
The sculpture reflects the moral framework often embedded within agricultural life in the American West, where work, responsibility, and community remain closely intertwined. The moment implies a choice made beyond the frame: labor set aside to help another. In this way the work considers service not as spectacle, but as an everyday ethic, where sacrifice often occurs in ways that leave little visible trace.
Ute on Horse Posing for Photograph
2026
Bronze
36 × 30 × 12 in
Edition of 12
This sculpture is based on a late nineteenth-century photograph of a Ute man mounted on horseback, posed before a camera during a period when the Ute people had already been forced onto reservations. The image belongs to a broader history of Western photography that helped construct enduring visual myths of the American frontier. Within these photographs, Indigenous subjects were often presented as timeless figures of a disappearing world, even as the realities of displacement and cultural upheaval were unfolding around them.
In translating the image into bronze, the sculpture holds this tension between representation and history. The mounted figure retains a sense of dignity and presence, yet the act of posing for the camera becomes central to the work. The rider is not simply depicted on horseback; he is participating in the creation of an image. The sculpture reflects a long-standing cultural process in which photographs, artworks, and monuments have shaped how the West is remembered, often romanticizing what was, in reality, a far more complicated and contradictory history.
Heidi Redd
2024
Bronze
19 × 13 × 14 in
Edition of 7
This sculpture is a portrait of Heidi Redd, a Utah rancher whose life remains deeply tied to the landscapes and traditions of the American West. I first met Heidi while filming Collodion: The Process of Preservation, and have since photographed her repeatedly. Her presence carries a rare combination of resilience, independence, and authority that reflects a lived relationship with land and animals rather than an inherited mythology of the West.
In translating her likeness into bronze, I was less interested in romanticizing the cowgirl figure than in capturing the gravity of someone who has spent a lifetime within that world. The surface of the sculpture retains the marks of its making, allowing gesture and texture to remain visible. In this way the portrait holds both likeness and process, a life shaped by landscape.
Yudah
2021
Bronze
22 × 19 × 11 in
Edition of 7 + AP
Yudah draws from early interpretations of the word ‘Ute,’ often translated as ‘high people’ a reference to those of the mountains or the horse.
Sisyphus
2013
Bronze
3\3 × 16 × 18 in
Edition of 7 + AP
Sisyphus draws inspiration from Albert Camus’ profound meditation on the human condition. With its fragmented yet powerful form, the piece captures the eternal struggle and quiet triumph of existence. Reflecting Camus' assertion that “one must imagine Sisyphus happy,” the sculpture invites contemplation on resilience, purpose, and the beauty found within the ceaseless effort.
Remnant
2026
Bronze
85 × 24 × 24 in
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Image shown is a digital rendering. Work in progress.
This work begins as an act of natural formation, wood shaped slowly by erosion and time, without awareness or intention. In casting it into bronze, I intervene in that process, transforming organic impermanence into something enduring. The sculpture holds two temporal forces in tension: nature’s unconscious evolution and humanity’s need to preserve.
What appears as gesture is not a single moment, but time itself made visible by growth, erosion, and stillness held in one form. The wood did not measure time; it simply existed within it. In casting it into bronze, I participate in a distinctly human impulse: to preserve, to define, to give permanence to what would otherwise pass unnoticed.
Cast in a limited edition of five, the work is less about narrative, but presence. A meditation on form, transformation, and the inevitability of human intervention.
Process Note:
The original burl has been digitally archived and is currently being prepared for casting. A restrained layer of clay is applied directly to its surface before molding. The original wood will not remain in its prior state after the molding and casting process.
Two Hands
2024
Bronze
10 × 9 × 7 in
Edition of 7 + 1 AP
A study in gesture between offering and restraint.
Burden No. 2
2019
Bronze
8 × 5 × 4 in
Edition of 9 + 1 AP
Burden No. 2 is a small yet powerful sculpture that encapsulates the Sisyphean nature of bearing an impossible burden. Standing at eight inches tall, the figure is hunched under the weight of a basket on its back, within which a single candlestick can rest. The figure’s posture, both weary and resolute, speaks to the endless effort of holding the flame aloft. In this piece, the flame symbolizes both hope and the persistent struggle to carry it forward, evoking themes of sacrifice, endurance, and the strength required to bear eternal weight.