Sculpture in Metal & Glass
Will loves working in diverse materials like metal and glass.
Metal, wonderfully malleable, is in some sense infinitely transformable. Glass, strong yet vulnerable to stress cracking, creates a beautiful interplay with light. The variety of these pieces, from the figurative, through the stylized, to the highly abstract, give a good sense of the range of Will's talent. These pieces are highly complex. The brass crab, for example, comprises over three hundred individually hand-sawn and hand-hammered pieces. The glass pieces are sculpted using a multi-layered sand-blast technique. Protective rubber stencil is applied to the glass, cut to the design, removed, and reapplied in a complicated, many-stage process. |
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Snapping Turtle Fountain
Cast bronze, various patinas Chelmsford granite Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, 1998 This sculpture was part of a landmark event, the first-ever art installations along the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority commissioned a series of privately funded artworks. Will's element was funded with a special grant from the Mobil Oil Company This piece consists of an eight foot circular monolith granite basin with four fountain jets which rain down on the sculpture. The basin fills over a slow cycle, submerging the piece up to the frog's head, and then abruptly emptying as a valve releases. The simple rising and falling of the water creates the effect that the turtle is moving--for such a simple mechanism, a surprisingly dramatic motion. |
Brass Crab
Hand-sawn brass, opals (eyes), Salvaged ebony wood, brass screws Private Collection This brass crab, symbolic of the astrological sign "Cancer," was commissioned as a birthday present.
The piece consists of over three hundred hand-sawn, hand hammered pieces, with fully articulated claws and legs. The interior hides a small, ebony lined case. |
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Aluminum Codfish
Aluminum, Laser cut Private Collection A companion to the copper codfish, with simplified lines.
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