Comma, 1996
Steel and ferro-concrete stucco
120" x 78" x 78" (H x W x D)

Comma appeared with 49 other sculptures displayed along the streets of downtown Sioux Falls, SD until April, 2008. In October of this year, it will be installed at Wachovia Plaza in Roanoke, VA across from the city's new art museum, opening in November, 2008. It is kinetic and meant to be touched and rotated, allowing viewers to interact with curving shapes and shadows that change from every angle and direction.

Comma is rich with familiar associations. The spiral form evokes both rotary motion and spiral progression. Spheres on the spiral tips suggest heavenly bodies in the swirling universe. Other viewers find aquatic or nautical allusions and see the spiral disk as a rolling wave or a rotating sail. Sculptors, art critics and connoisseurs appreciate Comma as a study of curvature in line, plane, shape, volume and dynamic space.

The sculpture also evokes nostalgia for an industrial past. Its spiral disk is rusted steel and its cylindrical stucco base resembles an old industrial stanchion or a wharf mooring. From 1996 to 2006 it was exhibited at the top of a grassy bank overlooking historic railroad roundhouses at the Caperton Train Station in Martinsburg, WV.
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