Still in progress the labor intensive process/experience of  Kissing in the Grass has no simple explanation. But here is a few thoughts from my experience:  The flood water’s sculptural prowess molded the iron in a manner that reflects water’s own  fluid geometry, those proportional harmonies we are naturally attracted to. We are drawn to look at, touch and communicate our reverence for water and it’s influence in  nature through  art forms, spiritual endeavors  and everyday conversations.   Seems to me water is the major architectural influence in all biologic forms.  The multiple female and male gender forms expressed by the tangle of iron surrounded by tall grass certainly plays in to the title .  The expanded inspiration is my ongoing attention to the phenomenon of life on earth that has continued evolving interdependently over hundreds of millions of years bringing us to the  fleeting and precious life we know today.  We spin through space on our invisible tether to the sun that holds us. Probably all cultures have intuitively grouped together and danced around the fire in similar celestial patterns not far from the entrance to the cave .   On Earth the mystery of attraction and desire is played out in thousands of ways in thousands of exquisite plant and animal life forms.   In humans desire springs from a rainbow of possibilities that builds important relationships , community and creates new life. The bends in the iron travel along side each other twisting away then entering into and out of each other in all directions. The diverse array of stones, some built from past lives of marine life forms, some hundreds of millions of years old that like us, all have stories to tell.  

Detail

Many stones are worked by a combination of sculpting, painting and drawing on. When complete the overall shape of Kissing in the Grass from a distance will possibly appear the shape of a sphere or a water drop 14 to 16 feet high.