The “box” form has fascinated me since I was a young man. I had made sculpture and boxes, using all kinds of found objects and graphics before I met Joseph Cornell in New York in 1957. After a 10 year correspondence, Cornell hired me as his assistant in 1965. (See my film “Cornell 1965”) After that time I continued box making along with film. It is as though I can capture the same content in a box as in a short animated movie.
The Boy Alchemist
12" x 12" x 7 1/4"
1994
Sandstorm Mountain Nebula
9" x 14" x 3 1/2"
1996
Topis Vert
9 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 4 1/7"
1997
Telegraph Madonna
12" x 8 1/2" x 3 1/2"
1964
Ignis Electrici
16" x 11" x 4 1/2"
1966
Angel's Aviary
17 3/4" x 9" x 4 1/2"
1966
Bottles and Bandages
9" x 12" x 7 1/4"
1983
The Boy Who Fell to Death
8 1/2" x 12" x 7"
1983
Mirror in the Snow: Mondrian
15 1/2" x 12" x 4 1/2"
1995
Carpenter's Gothic
15 1/2" x 12" x 4 1/2"
1983
Colliope Dancer
20" x 14" x 4 1/2"
1994
The Exquisite Pain of Sentient Being
16 1/2" x 16 1/2" x 4"
1996