Gavin #10 – Aspiration
Recycled steel, engine parts, salvaged materials, Marble, and stainless steel
138 x 48 x 24 Inches – 300 lbs
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Gavin #10 – Aspiration emerges from what has already lived another life—scrap steel, discarded engine parts, fragments of the built world. I don’t disguise that history; I follow it. The materials carry their own memory, and in assembling them, the figure begins to surface rather than be imposed.
This work exists within the ongoing GAVIN series—figures that stand in a space between stillness and movement, between holding on and letting go. In Aspiration, that tension becomes more intimate. The scale compresses the experience, bringing the internal struggle closer to the body, closer to breath.
The figure is weathered, incomplete, yet upright—held together by a fragile network of line and structure. It is not a depiction of strength, but of persistence. A quiet insistence on continuing.
I think of Gavin as a reflection of ourselves—moving through uncertainty, navigating forces both internal and external. There is a moment we all encounter: the threshold between resisting what is and becoming something else entirely. Not transformation as resolution, but as a continuous state of becoming.
Aspiration lives in that moment.
It is the space where fragility and resilience coexist—
where structure is both failing and forming—
where we are, briefly, aware of ourselves inside the process.
