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.
June 2021: these pages are being reorganized and updated (especially the image quality)

Snapping Turtle Fountain

Snapping Turtle Fountain: view of frog as water rises in the fountain. Cast bronze and granite. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Framingham, MA.

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.
This brass crab, symbolic of the astrological sign "Cancer," was privately commissioned.

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.

Brass Crab

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Hand-sawn brass, opals (eyes),
Salvaged ebony wood, brass screws
Private Collection

Aluminum Codfish

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Aluminum,
Laser cut
Private Collection
A companion to the copper codfish, with simplified lines.