– angular steel and curvilinear stainless steel – but it suggests a tenuous human encounter. The material forms are at odds, but they connect at one place, as though feeling out each other’s difference. Similarly, the three forms of Conflict (1998) touch just enough to complete the circuit between them, but their relationship remains tentative – more proposed than realized. Indeed, the insecurity of their relationship is conveyed by the eccentricity of the curve they form together. The family resemblance of the form makes the uncertainty of their connection all the more poignant.

Again and again we see Warwick proposing intimacy, then backing away from it, or not quite making it happen. On Edge (1998) is a superb example of such equivocation. A delicate balance, visual and spatial, is established between the forms, two of which are upright, one the horizontal connective – a balance that can be thrown off by the 

People and Places, 1996
22" x 30"
Mixed Media

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