Nature's Forms

Nature's Forms
14074 So. Stone Canyon
Draper, UT 84020
ph: 801-824-5770
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Final Landing
- Medium: Tigerwood, Goldenstone, Walnut
  with Turquose Inlay
- Dimensions: 96 x 48 x 24
"Final Landing" is a depiction of a bird of prey flying and landing. If you look closely you will see that part of the bird’s skull is exposed. This shows a bird that is growing old and slowly giving way to the next life. With that, the bird still wants to fly, be free and feel young. This Eagle represents the spiritual part of our life.
Harmony
- Medium: Walnut, Grape Wood, Purple Heart, Rosewood, Turquoise and Ryolite Sandstone
- Dimensions: 28 x 12 x 15
This peaceful sculpture is created by combining both natural and manmade materials and as each piece supports the other, it creates a unity. Harmony is a flow of life.
Forever Bugling
- Medium: Walnut, Elkhide and skulls
- Dimensions: 84 x 45 x 48
Parts of our personality that are with us in life are also retained with us even after death. The core of waht we are goes with us in this world and carries over into the next. The elks bugling is part of his core or spirit that goes with him. The essence of what he is comes out each time he bugles. He bugles either to claim his territory over a smaller male bull or to find a female. This is his life and what he is comes from his bugle or his core. The core of what a person is stays with them into the next place they go after they leave this one.
From the Core
- Medium: Moab goldenstone, American Red Gum wood, and Rosewood.
- Dimensions: 86 x 30 x 14
As we observe life both from a molecular one or step back and look at the big picture, it is all connected in a way to be reborn. The base of the sculpture is a representation of a DNA diagram with an umbilical core coming up through it. The DNA represents the ancestral core that we all come from. The umbilical cord is the life fuel or food we need to grow coming from the mother that cares for us. Both are then part of the stone core that produces the next generation. The next life that is above the stone cube is both touched by its ancestry and is fueled by its mother. It has taken the DNA to be what it is and then goes on to produce a new seed just like its ancestors did over and over again. As in spirit, we are connected to our ancestors through DNA that is eternal.
Morning Flight
- Medium: Stand is Yellowheart and the Eagle is Walnut with Turquoise inlay.
- Dimensions: Stands 92" Tall
This Eagle is having fun in the early morning sun. In flight it is riding a ray of sunshine while enjoying the wind under its wings. Remember to enjoy the moment!
Hoodoo5do
- Medium: Bavarian Walnut, Purpleheart, Resin and Copper.
- Dimensions: 14” x 14” x 6”
Nature's forms and colors enhanced by brilliant colored resins and Purpleheart, are blended together to represent Hoodoos.
Hallowed Perch
- Medium: Walnut and Kanab Golden Stone Sphere; Eagle is Bloodwood;Yellowheart eyes; Turquoise
- 86 x 18 x 18
This sculpture has several messages to give. Traveling we have all seen birds of prey perched on a fence post or telephone pole, sitting there majestically looking over its territory. This sculpture's eyes and feathers have coral and turquoise inlay fashioned after Northwest Indian Totems. The bird's perch is created by interweaving wood and stone. Each median compliments the other enhancing the beauty of this piece.
Hopi Spirit Land
- Medium: Lacewood, Rosewood, Paduak, Shadua and Kanab Wonder Stone.
- Dimensions: 52" x 14" x 32"
This sculpture is made of several woods that have some of the same color tones. The majority of wood used is Lacewood. Following its grain as the piece bends and flows into different surfaces gives way to many interesting exposers of the wood’s personality. By using woods that blend together, I am intending to have the viewer explore the shapes within the sculpture, not just the grains and colors of the wood. All the facets and angles offer new interpretation and experience to be contemplated.
Desert Monolith
- Medium: Rosewood, Walnut, Yellowheart and Turquoise Inlay.
- Dimensions: 84" x 32" x 32"
This sculpture is a glimpse of Monument Valley with its sandstone spires reaching to the sky and giving a spiritual feeling of being temples in the landscape. Each made of different woods represent different types of sandstone. Also imbedded into each spiral is a mark of the Navajo spirit world. View, enjoy and get lost in its upward movement, taking you to a world above ours.