"This sculpture is inspired by the wonderful feelings that jazz music gives me, and reflects the freedom that jazz musicians have as they take us on a fantastic journey with syncopation.
The sculpture gives everyone the freedom to see it in his or her own way. It was a wonderful experience to create the sculpture using my hands and eyes like mirrors that talk to me. I find more than a dozen abstract forms in this polyfaceted bronze.
One side designated "alpha" is in homage to the muralist master, Diego Rivera. Hidden behind a wing, it transforms to a fin of a sea mammal. The fin transforms towards the bottom into a porcupine and to the point of the fin, a face of a beaver is discovered. Looking at the profile of the fin a conversion to the lower lip of a singing frog with its mouth pointing toward the sky. The two lips convert to ears of a rabbit and towards the right of the "beta" side (the ears), the breast of a woman is discovered, represented like a volcano that symbolizes Mother Nature.
Side "gamma" has a triple meaning. The first is in homage to the famous American artist, Georgia O'Keefe. Upon turning the sculpture around, a stylized dove symbolizing peace. The third part of this side reminds us of a saddletree.
Side "delta" represents the creation of life out of the primordial soup on our planet. This is represented by what looks like a sunset in the presence of a newborn sea.
This piece has many more images to discover by moving it and turning it around. It is placed on an elk skin hide base over a lazy susan so it can be enjoyed as syncopation in sculpture."
