Stainless
Steel Pompano Rockfish
Stainless steel is a media
that is difficult to work. As a material is considerably "tougher"
than mild steel. Anything that you do to it shows up in the finished
product unless you take effort to remove the mark. Randomly burnished
finishes mask many of the working marks imparted into the piece.
This sculpture represents a fish that I found dead upon the beach one day.
A rare, Bigscale
Pomfret
washed up onto the beach at San Onofre. After notifying Scripps Institute
of Oceanography, I did the best job I could preserving the unusual specimen.
It is now dried and nailed to the wall of my studio. This sculpture
was sold at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts in 1999. 
The wall sculpture
behind the Stainless Steel Pompano is entitled "I Heard the News Today".
It is a bullet-riddled oil drum which I flattened and put behind a frame.
Unfortunately, much of today's "News" is about people dying from gunfire.