“7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and
his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any
more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him.”
Having obtained a degree in the history of art, I have an endless source of subjects for reinterpretation into new sculptures. To choose something like The Fall of the Rebel Angels, painted by Pieter Brueghel the Elder amongst many others, I feel that I am part of a continuation of a grand artistic tradition.
My first version of The Fall of the Rebel Angels was a series of pencil and ink wash drawings of falling angels, each in small frame – the kind used for family photographs. The idea was that the angels are like ancestral portraits, scattered down the wall of my studio.
The second more recent version has sculptures of small angels falling to create a column of convex and concave curves.