This week's art

This week I have finished up a couple of pieces that began with the idea of "rope."

This piece is entitled "Caged Chaos." It's a little over 3 feet tall. I made it while thinking of my expanding family and the way that it has power to rise above the grinding, trapping influences if we are united. It is made out of wood, rope and steel. There is probably a thousand feet of rope in the cage.

The detail shot shows the family on a ring of steel on top.

As I was buying rope for this project, Philip Kidd, head of Technical Theater at NSU, said he had loads of old rope that was once used in the riggings of the main stage.