Bacchanalia
The sculpture depicts a caprine, leg & foot, en pointe, configuration. The sculpture is carved from Australian fossil coral, and California, black and red marble, collected from the upper Mojave/Cadiz, CA, area. The black portions are the standard, desert, micro-crystalline quartz marble matrix, while the reddish pigmentation might have come from deposits of oxidized red, iron concentrations, accumulated over eons of geological time. The middle, black and red marble section, also reveals numerous, Girvanella, “thumbprint” fossils in the matrix of the black and red marble. The base is an exceptionally rare example of pink and blue, California, tricolor marble. The sculpture portrays corruption, and the difficulty of determining whether the transformation (grace or corruption) comes from the bottom up; or, from the top, down.
Australian, fossil coral
California, black and red marble
California, tri-color, pink and blue, Mojave marble
36 ¼″
70 ½ lbs
Completed March, 2026