Petra Sculpture on Marble, Small

A composition of stone, marble, and metal resolved into something closer to landscape than object, the Petra Sculpture grounds itself on a cool marble base while its brass finish lends a warm, almost geological luminosity to the whole. At eighteen and a half inches tall, it occupies space with the quiet authority of a found fragment — ancient in feeling, entirely considered in form. John Richard has long understood that a room's finest punctuation is neither loud nor explanatory, and the Petra embodies that restraint completely.