Wire sculptures

Inspired by a photo I saw of a wire sculpture of a male figure by Alexander Calder (pound-for-pound one of my favorite artists of all time!) I pulled out a spool of wire I used for a Filipino Christmas lantern and a trusty pair of needle-nose wire clippers to produce this:


Then, not too soon after, on my very fist visit to the San Francisco's Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park I saw this enormous sea bass affectionately called "Old Grumpy"
The face of the creature really affected me & I felt compelled to reproduce the scale of its head & the composition of its features in wire: