SCULPTURAL OBJECTS

Kayak grew out of years of paddling narrow boats. In a fast boat, balance is never static. It depends on continual movement between body, boat and water.

One winter day, with the Ocean beginning to freeze, the water ceased to behave like water. Becoming dull, leathery, resistant, no longer a reflective watery surface, but a skin. Fog pressed sky, horizon and sea into one pale field. Direction became uncertain. There was no clear above or below, no ordinary distance, no dependable horizontal line.

In that suspension, the kayak lost its normal relation to the water. Paddle, shoulder and hull became a repeated axis of movement: downward pressure, lift, correction, balance.
Out of this came the kayak series, boats lifted from the horizontal, turned upright and suspended, held by long slender paddles that act as lines of force. They thrust downward like paddles entering water, while optically lifting the forms into balance, tension and quiet movement.