I am working on several new pieces in the studio. I have “resurrected” an older piece of mine from 1982. It was titled “Empire”. I was working with Harry Geffert at the time learning to cast bronze. He owned and ran the “Green Mountain Foundry” in Crowley, Texas. Harry was an amazing artist and a hero of mine. Harry and I had an interesting past. He had actually been an art teacher in the Amarillo Public schools in the 1950’s, when I was a child, and had memories from that time, of me climbing the trees in our front yard while he was visiting a friend of his across the street from our house. That friend, Mr. Williams if I recall, told Harry that I was an artist, and I was, even at that very early age.
I worked with Harry through the 1970’s and 1980’s learning how to cast bronze. I used those lessons to build and run a foundry of my own while I was a professor at the at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
After Harry passed away, I got this piece back from his estate. And since I am a very different artist at this time, I decided to “conspire with Harry” to revive this work. As you can see it is really transformed. And I know Harry would have loved it.
