Unus Mundus Project

It is often hard to see the beautiful order of life when so much seems in disarray
but nonetheless, I sit here imagining its shape.
If each choice I made were an angle,
my gradual progress reflected as a sweeping arch,
something broken there,
lines that stop abruptly here,
chaotic twists that in the end,
framed some grand form I could only see with time.

This practice is scalable,
Maybe it is too much to draw out a lifetime in your mind.
But how about today,
Can you draw your lines of today?
How about one hour?
One minute?
Can you see the geometry take form each second?

This October I installed ‘Down the Line’ at the Bethlehem Visitors Center as part of Annual Steelstacks Sculpture Call.

I designed and built the piece specifically for Bethlehem Steel, its history and the community that surrounds this magnificent center of my hometown.

What an honor it is to have a piece of my own in the shadow of the Historic Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnaces!

Many thanks to all those who supported the creation of this work

And it is for sale,
link below for purchase inquiry!

https://fest.formstack.com/forms/banana_factory_art_work_purchase_inquire_chelsea_2025_vc

Cutting, coping, jigs, drilling, fitting, welding, alignment, finishing, sandblast, cleaning, patination, oil, clear coat, cure, install.

All and all it was a pretty straight forward fabrication.
There were a few ups and downs, as is natural.
The time crunch was perhaps the most difficult part since there are just some parts of that process that you cannot rush, like cure times.

I used a movable jig on my platen table to zap up all the angles and with only a few small tweeks here and there all the lines fell into place.