“Jona Frog”

In sketches, wire maquettes, clays, and finally in the sun-polished beauty of patinaed bronzes, David crafts many works simultaneously, something like conducting a choir of sculptures that echo and reinforce each other for many months in his studio under many lighting conditions. Yet in this environment, he treats each new work as a new voice—a burgeoning poem—that has something beautiful to tell us within its own carefully balanced poetic clarity which may take years to develop fully. After all, he says, each one of us is a poet sculpting our own river of meaning through life’s surprising yet sometimes resisting canyon walls. Why should not sculpture be like that?