The Narrative
The Prodigal Return: A Meditation on Origin
UPLIFTED is a meditation on return — not the triumphant kind, but the quiet, humbling kind. The figure stands tall but looks inward, carrying the specific weight of a long absence and the question that comes with it: do my roots still know me?
Drawn from the artist's own decades-long journey away from his ancestral home, the extreme elongation of the form speaks to a spirit stretched across time and distance. The downward gaze is not shame — it is consultation. A reckoning with origin.
This is not a prodigal son begging forgiveness. This is a man returning to be remembered — and discovering that the threads connecting him to where he came from never broke. They only grew longer.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: UPLIFTED
Year: 2003
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 185 × 20 × 25 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Theme: The Prodigal Journey & Ancestral Reconnection
Status: Available for Private Acquisition
The Narrative
The Prodigal Return: A Meditation on Origin
UPLIFTED is a meditation on return — not the triumphant kind, but the quiet, humbling kind. The figure stands tall but looks inward, carrying the specific weight of a long absence and the question that comes with it: do my roots still know me?
Drawn from the artist's own decades-long journey away from his ancestral home, the extreme elongation of the form speaks to a spirit stretched across time and distance. The downward gaze is not shame — it is consultation. A reckoning with origin.
This is not a prodigal son begging forgiveness. This is a man returning to be remembered — and discovering that the threads connecting him to where he came from never broke. They only grew longer.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: UPLIFTED
Year: 2003
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 185 × 20 × 25 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Theme: The Prodigal Journey & Ancestral Reconnection
Status: Available for Private Acquisition
