2020-2021 Public Sculptures

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Dr. Markin Luther King Jr.

In Beacon, a profile of a child’s face represents the flame of a candle. The base of the sculpture forms the stylized candle and the child’s face rises from it. The hard, bronze material is designed so as to form the wispy, light profile.

The moon has played an integral part in the psyche, religion, and development of humanity since the beginning of time. While the earliest known records are approximately 4000 years old, it is easy to imagine early humans gazing into the night sky and using the moon as a sort of calendar or basis for a belief system. This siren call or song of the moon still affects us today. Lunar and solar eclipses are still a widely viewed worldwide phenomenon. Sometimes there is nothing better than to just lay down on a nice evening and watch the moon rise and pass overhead. This bell gives a nice meditative sound that brings us back into harmony with nature.

(Mr. Andrews is a member of Artful Dimensions Gallery in Fredericksburg.)

I love the surprise that we get from seeing out of the ordinary things in ordinary places.

That moment of surprise helps bring awareness to our surroundings and creates an opportunity to reimagine our sense of place. The relationship that these pieces have with the environment communicates to the viewer. It is this connection that helps activate our imagination, which helps us see the world differently. In my most recent work I have been exploring the idea of unity and how we learn to feel connected through new perspectives.

The steel sculptures in the Dancing Milkweed series embody a poetic narrative of the diaspora of seed forms in nature. Seeds are designed to travel and regenerate, and people travel and act in similar ways: during times of great conflict, natural disaster, or personal timing, new options become available and things move. The Dancing Milkweed series meditates on timing, release, holding on, and letting go.

This bench takes morning glory flowers as inspiration. My benches are playful objects that invite interaction with the passer-by. Though they function as seating, there is an impracticality of form that lures people to explore each bench. My benches are practical yet also tell the visitor a story by creating a sense of place and often inviting interaction with the bench itself.
This “whisper bench” has great views of the Rappahannock River, along the Heritage Trail. Whisper into one blossom and your seatmate can clearly hear you at the other!