A Note on 2D Sculpture

This is sculpture pared down to the bone: a single, free-standing, two-dimensional, abstract, organic, flat-black shape. One point-of-view shows everything. All the weight, complexity, color, and endless points-of-view of my three-dimensional works are absent.

Reduce to almost no depth, this two-dimensional form is nevertheless a different thing than a shape painted on canvas. It is still sculpture, an object standing on its own in space.

With something so simple, only the shape of the thing matters. Whatever aesthetic feeling arises, it comes in response to the shape alone. If it is beautiful, the beauty is in the shape alone.

This two-dimensional work is like laying down the weight of three dimensions, a lightness and simplicity worth experiencing.