DAVID PHILLIPS, SANDWICH, MA

TOUCH WALL, 2025

Value: $1600

David Phillips is among the most accomplished public sculptors working in Massachusetts, with a career spanning nearly six decades. His work explores the dynamic relationship between geometry and nature, often drawing upon spiral forms, growth patterns, and structural systems found in the natural world. Working in bronze, stone, stainless, steel, wood, and other materials, Phillips has created both intimate studio works and large-scale public commissions integrated into architectural and landscape environments. Phillips' sculptures are installed in numerous civic spaces, including seven parks in Boston and five in Cambridge, as well as additional commissions throughout the United States and internationally, including Japan. Across all contexts, his work reflects a sustained engagement with material integrity, mathematical proportion, and the dialogue between constructed form and the living landscape.

"In this Braille series, I incorporate found Braille pages, fragments of coded language whose content remains inaccessible to most viewers. I use perforated metal plates and other metal elements to mask areas of the paper. I then apply a propane torch to char and burn the exposed sections, allowing the flame to reveal new textures and contrasts as the language shifts toward abstraction. I cut and reassemble the pages to create new graphic forms"

David Phillips

Medium: mixed media, charred brail sheets

Dimensions; 35" x 22"