SCULPTURE

RETICULATED FIELD COMPOSITION

Over the years Tom has created large site-specific outdoor works in glass that integrate with the environment and reflect and reveal the natural beauty and landscape of the area.

Situated on a rise in the meadow behind Daniel Chester French’s studio, the work reveals itself gradually to the viewer. The angles of the glass are the passing lines of the ridge’s angles, corresponding to the topography of the site. This juxtaposition of the landscape appears in a very unique way.  Planes overlap, and you can see the foreground of the sky and the mid-part of the sky in the same view - looking as if they were cut with scissors and pasted up. The discovery that of it’s reflective surfaces, six are glass sheets and one is a pool, comes only when the viewer steps close enough to see the surface of the water below.

In the central courtyard of a residential building in Greenwich Village, illuminated glass surfaces are integrated into the landscaping of the garden. Set at the ground floor of the garden, residents see the light sculptures from various angles. The colors change with the seasons. When it snows and the boxes are covered with snow, there is just a puff of light and color flushing out into the atmosphere

Within a circular atrium at Morton Square, five monolithic glass panels are suspended from a wall below a clerestory. A mix of natural and artificial light illuminates the panels. Though the glass is formed into precise gridded patterns, the light that emanates blurs the color as though it is neon, and transmits shadows and patterns on the large open wall below. The intersection of lines, tonal and colored light, creates an illusionary, a shifting corporeal form in the space - a moving source of abstract imagery.