This body of work centers around the recontextualization of the human form and our views concerning the Gods of western antiquity after their worship was outlawed in 391 A.D.  What were their crimes?  Can we blame Dionysus for the behavior of his followers?  (After all, bacchanals were part of his job description.)  Or were they simply vilified because they threatened the "new" views of western Theology?  Which makes me wonder:  If the Gods were immortal, do they still exist as impotent, aging shades of their former glory?  If so, then how do they spend their days of eternal exile?  Like balding, long forgotten teen idols?  Or like long-indulged children who suddenly cannot have their way?  Were they pure myth whose powers and very existence were dependent upon their worshippers?  And why should we only represent them in their prime like the King in his '68 comeback special performance?  I prefer the bloated '70's Elvis and I find the Gods more approachable when stripped of their hubris and exposed in a mug shot format.

METHODS

     All portraits were sculpted in clay before being transferred into wax, and finally bronze.  All other work was created directly in wax or cast from my own molds.  (Yes, I make my own.)  I choose not to do my own casting, gating or chasing, but I enjoy applying my own patinas.