Diamante

  Diamante is the grand-daddy of all the monsters, built in 1990.
  After earning my BFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill I found myself cast into the world of real artists; no more beautiful metal shop. I had no sheet metal tools, no eight-foot hydraulic shears, no finger-break, no roll. I didn't even have oxy-acetylene tanks.
     I renovated a kitchen for a friend and bought a jigsaw, a grinder, and a torch. It's impossible to cut a straight line in sixteen gauge steel with a jigsaw so I had to come up with a new dynamic. The smooth geometric forms I had created in college were impossible to fabricate with hand tools. I decided to go the opposite direction: rough cuts and dripping steel.
  Diamante is designed with flexibility in his knees and hips so that if you push him, he rocks gently in place.
  He stands 86 inches tall.

  E Stöl is hanging from the ceiling in a two-story great room in front of a wall of windows. This is a shot from directly beneath him.
  He is built to human proportions and is the size of a six-foot man kneeling, roughly 50 inches tall.
  E Stöl has also been displayed on the floor, in fact that is the way he was designed. He kneels, back arched, wings outspread, head looking down and away.