Revolve, 2020

A stainless-steel wall sculpture installed at “The Alamitos” 101 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, California, USA

This sculpture is composed of three female torsos. The torsos are of the same female form as seen from three different views. They are placed side by side to suggest the form is rotating in place. Each torso is defined by positive shapes set against negative space. The positive shapes are modeled to give them a three-dimensional anatomical form to the front and, to some degree, the sides. The negative space between the forms contributes equally to the creation of the image as a whole.

The inspiration for Revolve derives from the words rotation, revolution, and evolution. To rotate, or revolve, implies something turning in place and thereby revealing different aspects of itself in the process.

If you revolve yourself, your viewpoint changes, you see different views, and others see different views of you as well. You may not have gone far physically, but just by changing your point of view, you open up the possibility of seeing the world in revolutionary new ways for yourself and others. This leads to evolution; of individuals, communities, societies.