Iron Man: King of Pain

Iron Man started with a beautiful old square shovel I came across in the hills. It was split down the middle, rusted and worn -- a sturdy thing that had clearly been used long and hard. It got me thinking about endurance. Sometimes it takes everything we have just to take that next step.

Iron Man is a tribute to all of the qualities it takes to truly endure: the Iron Man of strength; the Jester who can laugh at himself and others; the humble, bent Elder who knows hard work and harder use, and the King, who knows his true worth.

Iron Man
Ceramic (recycled clay), found shovel, found gunshot metal
26 x 10 x 9 inches