Title: Mañana
Date: None  
Subject: Sailor sleeping on boat
Measurements: 18 ½”W x 7”D x 25 7/16”H
Materials and Techniques: Wood, paint, bamboo, thin white rope, thick white rope, acrylic eyelashes, plastic American flag
Description: A wood boat, with remnants of blue paint, rests on a small, square, wood base. Emerging from the surface of the boat is a thin stick of bamboo with an American flag waving at its top, representing the boat’s mast. Two pieces of thin, white string are attached from the top of the mast to either side of the surface of the boat. Angular, painted black wooden shapes depict a sailor’s body sleeping on the boat with his back straight, legs bent, and head resting on a coiled pile of red and white rope located at one end of the boat. Three pieces of stacked circular wood form the sombrero resting on the sleeping sailor’s head. Three acrylic eyelashes are attached to his wood face, connoting closed eyes. A triangular piece of wood represents his nose. While one wooden shape represents a bent right arm resting on his torso, the sailor’s left hand extends forward, holding one of the mast’s ropes as he sleeps peacefully.
Signed: “NSG” etched on base
Note: Exhibited as #6 “Mañana” at Duncan Campbell’s gallery in 1996. Cost: 950 British pounds.

Title: String Abstraction (working title)
Date: None
Subject: String Abstraction
Measurements: 12”W x 12 7/8”D x 9 ½”H
Materials and Techniques: Wood and string
Description: An abstract form is created from three rounded and curved pieces of natural wood nailed into a rectangular wooden base. Taut white string woven into a geometric pattern stretches between the wooden pieces.
Signed: None

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