Gavin #8 – Perseverance
Carbon steel and Granite base
12 feet high with base – 144 x 51 x 24 Inches – 300 lbs
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Gavin #8 – Perseverance is built entirely from steel, allowing the material to carry both structure and surface. The patina is not applied—it develops over time, recording exposure and duration. The material remains active, continuing to change.
The figure holds weight, but it doesn’t settle into it. There’s a slight step forward—a shift that suggests movement within constraint. It’s not a gesture of overcoming, but of continuing. The kind of movement that comes with carrying something, not escaping it.
I think of perseverance less as strength and more as a condition—
a quiet decision to keep moving, even when the weight remains.
