Egyptian Relief Plate

After an exhaustive 24 hours of work over this past
weekend, the latest sculpture is almost finished. The motivation for this piece was my former pet named Daisy - an African Basenji. Atop the relief shows her profile as a young pup and the bottom portions symbolize her "night-and-day" personality.

A little tailoring and detail work is still needed followed by a wax finish coat. This should be market-ready in about a week...

This is a photograph of some of my more recent workings. From left to right the third and fifth pieces are now completed (Lionhead and Moonface). The other three are nearing completion but still amount to a couple of weeks of detail work.

I hope to make good progress over the next four days of what seems to be great upcoming weather!

Today should prove to be an excellent day for sculpting. Usually it is my experience that the "hotter the better" when it comes to working in stone. We are expecting a high in the 90 degree range, it should be perfect.

The photo in this entry shows some of the basic tools with which the transformation from stone takes place. I keep things pretty simple and use no power tools except for in sharpening chisels.

Once in a while a passer-by my home will stop and ask "What is that going to be... that thing that you are working on?", to which I'll reply "Oh... It will still be just a stone!".


I will end this entry with my thoughts for today:

At times, life can smell sweeter than it will ever taste...

Today's entry is one with no relevant photo, but instead a photograph that I took sometime ago.

This is the home that my family, back in the early 1980's built together mainly due to the engineering skills of my Father and the amazing capacity for everything else, which my Mother brought to the table!


I spent about 3 hours in an attempt to replicate a previous work of mine, but with an interesting twist. First, about the original piece :) - this was a "sphinx" type sculpture retaining the classic interpretation sans the scale. The difference in the second (this current) sculpture is that the inflection is more modern. In the current "influenced" version, the sphinx is atop a sphere. The intentional skew is the control that it exudes over the analogous Earth... Things are turning out well... much more to do!

Sculpted from pure white Carrara Marble, this angel has been in the works for about two years.

The hardness and constant spray of chards from the chisel allow me to have a greater appreciation for Michelangelo. This was his stone of choice.

"The Moai" is a unique replication of the typical Easter Island monoliths. This one was completed in 2008 and is sculpted from domestic white limestone.

*did you know that the Easter Island Moai Monoliths were constructed to face inland?

This arrangement of Olmec-styled sculptures sets a nice island tone.

In some cases, the collection can make a statement beyond any one piece. These were a work-in-process during 2008.

'The Guardian' is an angelic relief from a gorgeous slab of red sandstone.

This piece was extremely difficult due to the hardness and brittle nature of the stone. It was finished in 2006 after a full year of work.

'The Praying Hands" was created of African dark soapstone in 2004. This shares the traditional with ancient gravity.

Form vs. Function

I generally stay far away from "functional" sculpture as it somehow seems distractive, although not in this case!

Sorry that the torch was not aflame for the photo...

Sometimes much can be said in very small sculptures.

These two (a futuristic observer and an old-world star gazer), have differences down to their very core. Both were created in 2002.

'Elephante' is a 600,000,000'ish year-old Brazilian Soapstone sculpture.

This piece was created in 2002 and was auctioned at the 2003 Gala at the Inn on the Mexican War Streets in Pittsburgh's Historic North Side.

A little larger than life... a little smaller than i'd like ;) It is very difficult to deal with large pieces of stone - way before the actual sculpting!

This piece took two summers to complete (approx 5 months total) and was completed in 2008.

The stage has been set for the transcendence of knowledge. This sculpture freezes the age-old concept of sharing from generation to generation.

This piece was made in 2004 from rustic soapstone.

Capturing the essence of the moment... that moment from which we all have come... to which there is only an absolute return.

'The Diver' was created in 2008.

My Italian, Russian and Slovak heritage has allowed me a great mix of vision, logic and creative passion.

So many greats to follow after...
Pisano, Andrea (1270-1349),
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680),
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)


This classical Italian relief was made of red sandstone and was completed in 2007.

Capturing nature at rest has always been a passionate pursuit - sometimes playfully evasive!

This small soapstone sculpture was based on a past pet named Spencer and was made in the year 2005

Keeping fluidity and softness while working in the worlds hardest materials is no accident - it is an art involving patience, persistence and vision...

This dove was being carved out of very hard soapstone which is both highly brittle and beautiful... Not something that can ever be rushed. This was made in 2005.

Every once in a while, i will get a great idea which leads me to another idea that will eventually go nowhere... Fortunately that does not happen very often ;)

This small study is a rough-cut limestone analog of the Caiman Crocodile. This piece was created in the late summer of 2008.

In the beginning

In the beginning there was stone. As luck would have it, there was a lot of stone. So i picked up my hammer and chisel. Amazing things happened and a life was changed forever.

This blog is an expose into the world of a man and a dream.

Some of the entries will be deep while others shallow.

Posts may apply to individual works or may have no outward message at all. Come and share in my journey!