Boxes

The “box” form has fascinated me since I was a young man. I had made sculpture and boxes, using all kinds of found objects and graphics before I met Joseph Cornell in New York in 1957. After a 10 year correspondence, Cornell hired me as his assistant in 1965. (See my film “Cornell 1965”)  After that time I continued box making along with film. It is as though I can capture the same content in a box as in a short animated movie.

The Boy Alchemist

12" x 12" x 7 1/4"

1994

Sandstorm Mountain Nebula

9" x 14" x 3 1/2"

1996

Topis Vert

9 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 4 1/7"

1997

Telegraph Madonna

12" x 8 1/2" x 3 1/2"

1964

Ignis Electrici

16" x 11" x 4 1/2"

1966

Angel's Aviary

17 3/4" x 9" x 4 1/2"

1966

Bottles and Bandages

9" x 12" x 7 1/4"

1983

The Boy Who Fell to Death

8 1/2" x 12" x 7"

1983

Mirror in the Snow: Mondrian

15 1/2" x 12" x 4 1/2"

1995

Carpenter's Gothic

15 1/2" x 12" x 4 1/2"

1983

Colliope Dancer

20" x 14" x 4 1/2"

1994

The Exquisite Pain of Sentient Being

16 1/2" x 16 1/2" x 4"

1996