12/29/2023 0 Comments Salt and Sacrifice free instal![]() This large scale piece is the first in an edition of ten. I envisioned this piece on a much larger scale, so I created the version currently on display in the gallery, where it will remain through my exhibition in January before installation at the collectors home. A couple of years ago, I decided this would make an interesting model for a sculpture, so I carved my version out of Western Red Cedar and had this version cast in bronze as an edition of ten. I had it in my possession for many years after. By the end of summer it was decomposed enough where we could pry a vertebrae from the remains. Over the course of the summer me and my close friend Gunther Jose Frank, while working on the building together, rowed out to the spot and watched the whale decompose. ![]() ![]() During this time a gray whale beached itself and died at the mouth of the Edison Slough. ![]() The history of this piece began fifteen years ago when I was remodeling the building that was to become Smith & Vallee Gallery. ![]()
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