Steve Cooley Fine Art

this is a new sculpture I’ve created. It’s made out of Teak and stainless steel. This actually used to be a futon bed that I bought used from a coworker, held on to after we bought nicer furniture, and eventually harvested / reclaimed once I had a thickness planer. The metal parts are from a new light we installed in our kitchen… they were the extra extension tubes that we did not use. Originally I was trying to make a tool to help me make repositionable, repeatable rubber stamps for some of my other sculptures. The thightening mechanism is pretty good. Loosen up the wingnuts and they all can slide around on the rails. Anyway, I think I’ll be listing this on etsy soon. You saw it here first.

Us and Them: a tribute to growing up and finding someone to love. I intentionally spaced the objects as I did to suggest personal space boundaries and a couple’s rejection of the herd. In spite of the split from the group, they are remaining connected by the common rails of humanity.