Powerhouse

With Powerhouse I wanted to represent a sense of power and machinery, yet still show the smooth shininess of a polished hood of a 50s style car with a hood ornament inspired by the one that was on my 1950 Dodge truck.  The stone, which I think is actually a softer sandstone, actually polished up well and was a surprisingly tannish color.  I wanted to do some fairly detailed gears with symmetry and pierce the stone all the way through leaving a fairly good sized hole.  To give it a little more stability I placed it on a piece of black walnut at a slight plane to give more of a semblance of motion and movement with a Corvette-like swoosh detail.  Definitely think of and being inspired by some of the Futurist paintings of trains and airplanes from the 20s (not the sculptures, which are lacking and the few I’ve seen I didn’t care for.) It’s actually named for Raymond Scott’s composition “Powerhouse.”  You know it, you just don’t know you know it.  If you’ve ever watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon, it is the music used whenever some mechanical contraption was set into motion.  Overall I like it, but in retrospect I would have left out the brass pieces.

4 out of 5. Because I just said why.

Sandstone? 12”W x 8”H x 3”D

Powerhouse (2022)