whale (2007)

Sculpture. Mixed media. An allegory of the relationship between humans and whales.

An allegoric sculpture, invitation to understand and question the established relationship between humans and whales. An organic abstraction of a skeleton - part whale carcass, part human ribcage, part whaling boat frame - breaking and dividing space in lifeless suspension, metaphorically "hanging over our heads" in San Francisco, a Victorian city representative of a culture and an economy that was largely supported by the whaling industry, ultimately bound for extinction.