Boston College

Boston, Massachusetts, 1995

With the expansion of a neo-Gothic building, I was presented with the opportunity to provide sculpture in the tradition of countless historical precedents and in the context of earlier architecture on the campus of the same style. The significance of this project is more its scale and the role sculpture played as an integral structural component, an essential part of the architecture aesthetically and functionally. It also brought to the present the tradition of using portraits of current members of the college community to represent biblical figures, similar to the sculptures in medieval abbeys and monasteries where the abbot might be portrayed as St. Paul. In this way, profound themes and present-day life are brought together and felt simply and personally.