“Journey’s end in lover’s meeting”

Twelfth Night

Bench seat. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with an acrylic cradle. 18” x 8” x 17”

“I would rather be happy than dignified”

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Bench seat. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with an acrylic cradle. 18” x 8” x 17”

“ The old man was dreaming of lions”

Old Man and the Sea

The lion symbolizes youth, strength, happiness and hope for the old man. The significance of the book ending with a fianl reference to the dream about lions is that it shows the old man, although battered and beaten to the point of death by his encounter on the sea, he still retains his ability to hope and dream.

Bench seat. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with burnt wood cradle 18” x 8” x 17”

“Cease Cows, for life is short.”

100 Years Of Solitude

Nonsensical Babble spoken by Aureliano Secunda to his pretentious, unbearably snobby. bourgeois wife, Fernanda del Carpio.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“At the still point, there the dance is.”

Four Quartets.

It’s the place where our souls can find a sense of stillness and peace, even as the world continues to change. Exploring the possibility of a mindset in which total contradictions can exist in harmony.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“ I am fearless, therefore powerful.”

Frankenstein

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“The curve of you lips rewrite History”

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian sells his soul in exchange for never getting old. Instead of his body getting wrinkled with age spots, a magic painting does his aging for him. Tis quote comes from a love letter from an admirer.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“She was lost in longing to understand”

Love in the Time of Cholera

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.”

Bird Imagery describes how Jane is trapped like a caged bird at the beginning, how she develops the strength and bravery to take flight on her own.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate. 24” x 8” x 10”

“You never monkey with the truth”

-Ben Bradlee

The former executive editor of the Washington Post who oversaw its newsroom through such pivotal moments in journalism as the publication of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal.

Bench seat. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with burned wood (shou sugi ban) cradle. 18” x 8” x 17”

“With Freedom, Flowers, Books, And The Moon, Who Could Not Be Happy?”

Inspired by Oscar Wilde from De Profundis

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment End Table.
Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate
24” x 10” x 8”

"We Are Asleep Until We Fall In Love"

Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Pierre after the duel. He contemplates his life and how he has been made into a fool; he feels as though he has done nothing with himself. He goes from insisting that "Life and love/I don't deserve…I've had my time/Close my eyes/Let the death bells chime". This seems to be the moment in which Pierre changes his life.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate
24” x 10” x 8”

“Women Are Meant To Be Loved, Not Understood”

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. At the height of his creative powers, these stories confirm Oscar Wilde's reputation as a master storyteller in their sense of fun, quick intelligence and witty dissection of Victorian society.

End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate.
24” x 10” x 8”

“Out Of The Strong Came Forth Sweetness”

Samson's riddle that appears in the biblical narrative about Samson. Samson wagered a riddle to thirty Philistine guests, in these words: "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet". Instead of a fair riddle that could be discerned with deduction, the riddle was based on a private experience of Samson who killed a young lion and after a while found bees and honey in its corpse. "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" is the answer to the riddle.
End Table. Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, welded steel plate.
24” x 10” x 8”

“With Mirth And Laughter Let Old Wrinkles Come” 17 x 18 x 10

Inspired by William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Act 1 Scene 1 between Antonio and Gratiano
ANTONIO: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
GRATIANO: Let me play the fool. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster.
Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with an acrylic cradle.
17” x 18” x 10”

“In The Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World”

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau in an 1851 lecture called "Walking".

Thoreau would agree with today's environmentalists that wilderness is a state of nature, but he uses wildness to refer instead to a state of humanity. The lecture encourages people to be wild, which he equates with "absolute freedom" as opposed to the limited freedom available in a "culture merely civil."

Literature inspired hand-illustrated, painted, splattered and scraped, capped steel tube with a wood cradle.
17” x 18” x 10”