Fire Inside Art

1990 Wax maquette: At the artist’s home studio, Kings Beach, CA

 

Power Sculpting:

• 1992: Rough-out begins as live public demonstration in art showing, during the Apple Hill Festival, in the artist’s childhood town, Camino, California.

• Completed at Kings Beach studios, Lake Tahoe, CA

 

Displayed:

• 7 years as entrance piece of the artist’s Tahoe gallery

 

Metamorphosis by Fire Inside:

• 2015: Burning Man, or Carnival of Mirrors, before The Temple,

• Closest to The Temple of any sculpture displayed on-playa this year.

• Thursday night

 

Burning Man Events:

• 2007: Green Man: One of The Guardians of Liberty in the art installation, “America Enlightening the World...Again”

• 2008: Burning Man,  American Dream:  Featured in the art installation, “The Choice”

• 2013, Burning Man, Cargo Cult: In the sculpture garden at Fractal Planet, 2:00 and Esplanade  

• 2015: Burning Man, Carnival of Mirrors: Featured in the art installation, Smoke n Mirrors, Metamorphosis burn before the famous Temple.

• 2016:Burning Man, Da Vinci’s Workshop, at the entryway sculpture garden, Silicon Village, BRC

• 2016, fall: San Francisco Decompression, character in a triptych display, alongside a chainsaw carving demonstration on Liberty Torch

• 2017, fall: Brewery Art Center in Nevada’s capital, Carson City

• 2018: I, Robot: Character in installation, Artifactual Intelligence

 

Extended showings:

• 2010, Early Summer-2011, late winter, character in Liberty (R)evolution, Ski Run Marina, South Lake Tahoe, CA.

• 2017, Early summer: Brewery Art Center in Nevada’s capital, Carson City

 

Noteworthy:

• Carved from a solid Jeffrey Pine log, the sculpture weeps sap slowly, continuously, a feature we endear...known affectionately as “The weeping guardian”